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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 82
Hardware Fit
34 vs 92
Quality Score
80 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b qwen2.5-7b-instruct
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 qwen2.5-7b-instruct
Tokens/sec4.022.0
First chunk1655 ms477 ms
TTFT1.7 s477 ms
Load time12.9 sN/A
Memory usage21.3 GB4.0 GB
Memory %89%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

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

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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