qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma4 · 31B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

66 vs 85

Hardware Fit

34 vs 64

Quality Score

80 vs 94

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

Cores1016

RAM24 GB128 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:27b gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Tokens/sec4.013.6

First chunk1655 ms16 ms

TTFT1.7 s558 ms

Load time12.9 s12.3 s

Memory usage21.3 GB0.0 GB

Memory %89%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

8/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

6/30

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

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

gemma-4-31b-it-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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