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qwen/qwen3.6-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
80 vs 89
Hardware Fit
56 vs 96
Quality Score
90 vs 86

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-27b qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.5.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-27b qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec10.889.9
First chunk16 ms188 ms
TTFT2.6 s188 ms
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage21.0 GB30.2 GB
Memory %66%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3-coder:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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