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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

22 vs 20

Hardware Fit

50 vs 34

Quality Score

10 vs 14

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1012

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec11.410.6

First chunkN/A1344 ms

TTFT30.0 s30.0 s

Load time1.0 s0.2 s

Memory usage16.5 GB18.1 GB

Memory %52%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

20/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6:27b

Speed

22/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

12/30

Quality

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Reasoning

1/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

6/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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