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nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO MLX

nemotron_h · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 75
Hardware Fit
100 vs 67
Quality Score
77 vs 79

Hardware

nvidia/nemotron-3-… qwen3.5:27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nvidia/nemotron-3-… qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec47.94.4
First chunk465 msN/A
TTFT465 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/A13.2 s
Memory usage16.6 GB22.7 GB
Memory %52%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
7/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

nvidia/nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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