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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 23, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
53 vs 80
Hardware Fit
81 vs 60
Quality Score
41 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.6:27b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M2AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores832
RAM8 GB125 GB
GPUApple M2Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec24.811.2
First chunk317 ms429 ms
TTFT7.4 s429 ms
Load time0.0 s8.8 s
Memory usage3.9 GB39.7 GB
Memory %49%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
25/30

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
10/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
4/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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