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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

34 vs 80

Hardware Fit

21 vs 63

Quality Score

39 vs 87

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM24 GB128 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec6.124.0

First chunk7 ms20 ms

TTFT22.9 s4.5 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage19.8 GB15.7 GB

Memory %82%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

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Speed

27/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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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

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Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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