qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

yi:6b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

62 vs 77

Hardware Fit

35 vs 100

Quality Score

73 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx yi:6b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx yi:6b

Tokens/sec0.027.6

First chunk5548 msN/A

TTFT5.5 s210 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage2.9 GB3.6 GB

Memory %5%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

yi:6b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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

yi:6b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

6/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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