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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

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Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

34 vs 33

Hardware Fit

21 vs 74

Quality Score

39 vs 15

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/sec6.111.5

First chunk7 ms670 ms

TTFT22.9 s670 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage19.8 GB3.0 GB

Memory %82%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed

24/50

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

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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