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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

34 vs 72

Hardware Fit

21 vs 89

Quality Score

39 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.5-27b-claude… qwen3.5-9b

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… qwen3.5-9b

Tokens/sec6.128.9

First chunk7 ms338 ms

TTFT22.9 s338 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage19.8 GB6.1 GB

Memory %82%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

39/50

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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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