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qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 4
Hardware Fit
99 vs 13
Quality Score
51 vs 0

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec48.23.5
First chunkN/A1781 ms
TTFT195 ms52.0 s
Load time1.0 s13.4 s
Memory usage2.5 GB21.3 GB
Memory %8%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
7/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
6/30

Quality

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest