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qwen/qwen3.6-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Excellent

Oct 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
80 vs 80
Hardware Fit
56 vs 80
Quality Score
90 vs 80

Hardware

qwen/qwen3.6-27b granite4.2:3b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen/qwen3.6-27b granite4.2:3b
Tokens/sec10.846.8
First chunk16 ms135 ms
TTFT2.6 s135 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage21.0 GB12.7 GB
Memory %66%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen/qwen3.6-27b

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

granite4.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

granite4.2:3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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