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qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
65 vs 84
Hardware Fit
99 vs 69
Quality Score
51 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec48.228.9
First chunkN/A33 ms
TTFT195 ms4.4 s
Load time1.0 s7.9 s
Memory usage2.5 GB0.0 GB
Memory %8%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
33/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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