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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:32b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 32.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
55 vs 79
Hardware Fit
87 vs 59
Quality Score
41 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3:32b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3:32b
Tokens/sec68.29.7
First chunk3268 ms324 ms
TTFT3.3 s324 ms
Load timeN/A24.5 s
Memory usage0.6 GB26.8 GB
Memory %2%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

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

qwen3:32b

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

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

qwen3:32b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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