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qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

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Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

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Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
20 vs 34
Hardware Fit
34 vs 21
Quality Score
14 vs 39

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1210
RAM24 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.66.1
First chunk1344 ms7 ms
TTFT30.0 s22.9 s
Load time0.2 sN/A
Memory usage18.1 GB19.8 GB
Memory %75%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.6:27b

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

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed
12/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
9/30

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

qwen3.5-27b-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

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest