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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.1B · Q3_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
53 vs 33
Hardware Fit
89 vs 76
Quality Score
38 vs 14

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores144
RAM64 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
Tokens/sec52.99.9
First chunk4013 ms3166 ms
TTFT4.0 s3.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB0.5 GB
Memory %1%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

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

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

Speed
32/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
28/30

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

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest