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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
66 vs 59
Hardware Fit
34 vs 69
Quality Score
80 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM24 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec4.030.5
First chunk1655 ms333 ms
TTFT1.7 s30.0 s
Load time12.9 s9.8 s
Memory usage21.3 GB25.1 GB
Memory %89%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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