qwen3.5-4b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
deepseek-r1:1.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
62 vs 60
Hardware Fit
35 vs 90
Quality Score
73 vs 47
Hardware
qwen3.5-4b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-A78AE
Cores146
RAM64 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-4b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec0.034.6
First chunk5548 ms5314 ms
TTFT5.5 s5.3 s
Load timeN/A5.1 s
Memory usage2.9 GB1.1 GB
Memory %5%15%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
10/20
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
deepseek-r1:1.5b
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
4/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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