aya:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · F16

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

66 vs 62

Hardware Fit

92 vs 35

Quality Score

55 vs 73

Hardware

aya:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

aya:8b qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Tokens/sec20.00.0

First chunkN/A5548 ms

TTFT300 ms5.5 s

Load time0.9 sN/A

Memory usage6.0 GB2.9 GB

Memory %19%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

aya:8b

Speed

32/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

aya:8b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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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