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qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
62 vs 75
Hardware Fit
100 vs 54
Quality Score
46 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5-27b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:0.8b qwen3.5-27b
Tokens/sec65.86.6
First chunk230 ms4364 ms
TTFT230 ms4.4 s
Load time1.5 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB15.0 GB
Memory %8%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

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

qwen3.5-27b

Speed
13/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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