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qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
20 vs 60
Hardware Fit
34 vs 96
Quality Score
14 vs 44

Hardware

qwen3.6:27b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:27b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec10.6108.0
First chunk1344 ms2568 ms
TTFT30.0 s2.6 s
Load time0.2 sN/A
Memory usage18.1 GB1.0 GB
Memory %75%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:27b

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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