qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-opus-distilled-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

34 vs 74

Hardware Fit

21 vs 100

Quality Score

39 vs 63

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec6.150.6

First chunk7 ms257 ms

TTFT22.9 s257 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage19.8 GB0.7 GB

Memory %82%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

8/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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