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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-instruct:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
62 vs 94
Hardware Fit
35 vs 100
Quality Score
73 vs 91

Hardware

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MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1416
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec0.0116.0
First chunk5548 ms575 ms
TTFT5.5 s575 ms
Load timeN/A10.2 s
Memory usage2.9 GB21.0 GB
Memory %5%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3-30b-a3b-t16-c32k-…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest