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qwen/qwen3.6-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
80 vs 81
Hardware Fit
56 vs 95
Quality Score
90 vs 75

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-27b qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook ProASUS
CPUApple M1 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 15.6.1Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-27b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec10.8108.3
First chunk16 ms169 ms
TTFT2.6 s169 ms
Load timeN/A1.7 s
Memory usage21.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %66%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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