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qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
20 vs 59
Hardware Fit
34 vs 63
Quality Score
14 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.6:27b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM24 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.6:27b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec10.618.3
First chunk1344 ms4 ms
TTFT30.0 s530 ms
Load time0.2 sN/A
Memory usage18.1 GB38.5 GB
Memory %75%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:27b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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