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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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
20 vs 52
Hardware Fit
37 vs 100
Quality Score
12 vs 31

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Air
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec10.6257.5
First chunk358 ms99 ms
TTFT13.7 s99 ms
Load time10.8 sN/A
Memory usage39.7 GB0.3 GB
Memory %32%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest