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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
62 vs 85
Hardware Fit
35 vs 96
Quality Score
73 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1420
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec0.088.6
First chunk5548 ms306 ms
TTFT5.5 s306 ms
Load timeN/A7.0 s
Memory usage2.9 GB8.1 GB
Memory %5%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

Quality

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b

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