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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 8, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 34
Hardware Fit
89 vs 58
Quality Score
38 vs 23

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:latest
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:latest
Tokens/sec52.913.3
First chunk4013 ms438 ms
TTFT4.0 s19.8 s
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage0.6 GB8.0 GB
Memory %1%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:latest

Speed
32/50
TTFT
1/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5:latest

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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