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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score
55 vs 61
Hardware Fit
87 vs 69
Quality Score
41 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec68.235.7
First chunk3268 ms438 ms
TTFT3.3 s5.1 s
Load timeN/A40.1 s
Memory usage0.6 GB5.5 GB
Memory %2%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
8/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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