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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
62 vs 79
Hardware Fit
35 vs 57
Quality Score
73 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1432
RAM64 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec0.010.7
First chunk5548 ms341 ms
TTFT5.5 s341 ms
Load timeN/A10.2 s
Memory usage2.9 GB39.7 GB
Memory %5%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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