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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
55 vs 86
Hardware Fit
87 vs 78
Quality Score
41 vs 90

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx gemma4:12b
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 gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec68.226.3
First chunk3268 ms545 ms
TTFT3.3 s545 ms
Load timeN/A9.5 s
Memory usage0.6 GB8.4 GB
Memory %2%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

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

gemma4:12b

Speed
28/50
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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
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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