qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

deepseek-r1:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

62 vs 22

Hardware Fit

35 vs 50

Quality Score

73 vs 10

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx deepseek-r1:14b

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec0.011.4

First chunk5548 msN/A

TTFT5.5 s30.0 s

Load timeN/A1.0 s

Memory usage2.9 GB16.5 GB

Memory %5%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

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Speed

20/50

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

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Reasoning

1/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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