qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

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OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

62 vs 75

Hardware Fit

35 vs 64

Quality Score

73 vs 80

Hardware

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MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925

Cores1420

RAM64 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12

OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec0.014.3

First chunk5548 ms327 ms

TTFT5.5 s327 ms

Load timeN/A12.0 s

Memory usage2.9 GB18.5 GB

Memory %5%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

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Speed

14/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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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

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Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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