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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

phi3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
68 vs 63
Hardware Fit
86 vs 83
Quality Score
60 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b phi3:14b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b phi3:14b
Tokens/sec36.512.7
First chunk207 msN/A
TTFT6.6 s434 ms
Load time3.2 s0.9 s
Memory usage5.3 GB17.7 GB
Memory %33%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
29/30

phi3:14b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
9/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

phi3:14b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
7/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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