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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen2.5-coder:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score
62 vs 68
Hardware Fit
35 vs 59
Quality Score
73 vs 72

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:7b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Cores1424
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:7b
Tokens/sec0.034.4
First chunk5548 ms1991 ms
TTFT5.5 s2.0 s
Load timeN/A40.6 s
Memory usage2.9 GB5.0 GB
Memory %5%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
9/30

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

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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