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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 74
Hardware Fit
34 vs 91
Quality Score
80 vs 66

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b granite3.1-dense:8b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM24 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b granite3.1-dense:8b
Tokens/sec4.018.8
First chunk1655 msN/A
TTFT1.7 s308 ms
Load time12.9 s0.6 s
Memory usage21.3 GB13.0 GB
Memory %89%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
8/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
6/30

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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