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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
83 vs 59
Hardware Fit
99 vs 63
Quality Score
76 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Pro
CPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec36.618.3
First chunk204 ms4 ms
TTFT204 ms530 ms
Load time2.7 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB38.5 GB
Memory %33%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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