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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

34 vs 89

Hardware Fit

21 vs 95

Quality Score

39 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b-claude… qwen/qwen3-8b

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM24 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-27b-claude… qwen/qwen3-8b

Tokens/sec6.133.4

First chunk7 ms257 ms

TTFT22.9 s257 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage19.8 GB4.3 GB

Memory %82%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed

45/50

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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