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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
20 vs 89
Hardware Fit
37 vs 97
Quality Score
12 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Pro
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M5 Max
Cores3218
RAM125 GB48 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec10.6129.4
First chunk358 ms49 ms
TTFT13.7 s49 ms
Load time10.8 s0.0 s
Memory usage39.7 GB20.5 GB
Memory %32%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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