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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

vicuna:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 59
Hardware Fit
91 vs 84
Quality Score
58 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx vicuna:13b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx vicuna:13b
Tokens/sec42.213.4
First chunk201 msN/A
TTFT4.4 s438 ms
Load time0.0 s0.6 s
Memory usage3.8 GB10.3 GB
Memory %24%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

vicuna:13b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

vicuna:13b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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