qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score

62 vs 37

Hardware Fit

35 vs 73

Quality Score

73 vs 22

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx deepseek-r1:1.5b

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 deepseek-r1:1.5b

Tokens/sec0.018.4

First chunk5548 ms593 ms

TTFT5.5 s30.0 s

Load timeN/A3.8 s

Memory usage2.9 GB1.0 GB

Memory %5%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

3/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

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