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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Kimi-48B:48B

OLLAMA GGUF

kimi-linear · 49.1B · unknown

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score
62 vs 90
Hardware Fit
35 vs 96
Quality Score
73 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx Kimi-48B:48B
MachineMac miniHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML
CPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )
Cores1420
RAM64 GB55 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx Kimi-48B:48B
Tokens/sec0.062.7
First chunk5548 ms397 ms
TTFT5.5 s397 ms
Load timeN/A16.8 s
Memory usage2.9 GB25.5 GB
Memory %5%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

Kimi-48B:48B

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

Kimi-48B:48B

Reasoning
16/20
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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