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qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
47 vs 65
Hardware Fit
53 vs 88
Quality Score
45 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec11.348.9
First chunkN/A4208 ms
TTFT9.2 s4.2 s
Load time0.1 sN/A
Memory usage7.2 GB1.6 GB
Memory %23%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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