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qwen/qwen3.6-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
80 vs 66
Hardware Fit
56 vs 91
Quality Score
90 vs 55

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-27b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-27b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec10.833.2
First chunk16 ms7 ms
TTFT2.6 s311 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage21.0 GB0.5 GB
Memory %66%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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