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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
62 vs 78
Hardware Fit
35 vs 86
Quality Score
73 vs 74

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3:8b
MachineMac mini—
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1424
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec0.048.5
First chunk5548 ms202 ms
TTFT5.5 s4.3 s
Load timeN/A4.2 s
Memory usage2.9 GB5.5 GB
Memory %5%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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