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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

34 vs 57

Hardware Fit

21 vs 100

Quality Score

39 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b-claude… qwen2.5:0.5b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-27b-claude… qwen2.5:0.5b

Tokens/sec6.1165.0

First chunk7 msN/A

TTFT22.9 s81 ms

Load timeN/A0.5 s

Memory usage19.8 GB1.7 GB

Memory %82%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

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

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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