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qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
70 vs 81
Hardware Fit
66 vs 68
Quality Score
71 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.6:35b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
Cores1416
RAM48 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.4.1macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:35b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec30.616.4
First chunk304 ms5 ms
TTFT30.0 s742 ms
Load time10.0 sN/A
Memory usage28.1 GB38.5 GB
Memory %59%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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