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qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Excellent

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
20 vs 84
Hardware Fit
34 vs 91
Quality Score
14 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.6:27b qwen3.5-9b
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:27b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec10.630.2
First chunk1344 ms499 ms
TTFT30.0 s499 ms
Load time0.2 sN/A
Memory usage18.1 GB6.7 GB
Memory %75%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:27b

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

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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