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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
68 vs 72
Hardware Fit
91 vs 92
Quality Score
58 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
MachineMacBook ProAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M1 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM16 GB125 GB
GPUApple M1 ProAMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.6.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec42.2120.7
First chunk201 ms93 ms
TTFT4.4 s1.5 s
Load time0.0 s2.5 s
Memory usage3.8 GB5.8 GB
Memory %24%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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