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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
53 vs 82
Hardware Fit
89 vs 69
Quality Score
38 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMac miniDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1416
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
Tokens/sec52.920.4
First chunk4013 ms1362 ms
TTFT4.0 s1.4 s
Load timeN/A34.2 s
Memory usage0.6 GB22.7 GB
Memory %1%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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