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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
62 vs 13
Hardware Fit
35 vs 41
Quality Score
73 vs 1

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3.5:2b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores148
RAM64 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4 ProKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3.5:2b
Tokens/sec0.04.5
First chunk5548 ms1413 ms
TTFT5.5 s31.1 s
Load timeN/A7.1 s
Memory usage2.9 GB3.8 GB
Memory %5%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:2b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:2b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest