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qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
20 vs 78
Hardware Fit
34 vs 86
Quality Score
14 vs 74

Hardware

qwen3.6:27b qwen3:8b
MachineMac mini—
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1224
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
OSmacOS 15.6.1Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:27b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec10.648.5
First chunk1344 ms202 ms
TTFT30.0 s4.3 s
Load time0.2 s4.2 s
Memory usage18.1 GB5.5 GB
Memory %75%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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