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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
69 vs 60
Hardware Fit
85 vs 96
Quality Score
62 vs 44

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
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 qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec36.9108.0
First chunk474 ms2568 ms
TTFT6.9 s2.6 s
Load time2.9 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB1.0 GB
Memory %33%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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