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hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.33B · unknown

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
52 vs 63

Hardware

hf.co/empero-ai/Qw… qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

hf.co/empero-ai/Qw… qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec26.523.1
First chunk447 ms3279 ms
TTFT447 ms3.3 s
Load time3.3 sN/A
Memory usage4.8 GB2.9 GB
Memory %30%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
45/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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