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qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 76
Hardware Fit
34 vs 89
Quality Score
80 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5:27b ministral-3:8b
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 ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec4.019.5
First chunk1655 ms328 ms
TTFT1.7 s328 ms
Load time12.9 s1.5 s
Memory usage21.3 GB10.6 GB
Memory %89%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:27b

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
39/50
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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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