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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
55 vs 76
Hardware Fit
87 vs 92
Quality Score
41 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx gemma3:4b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx gemma3:4b
Tokens/sec68.215.0
First chunk3268 ms2380 ms
TTFT3.3 s2.4 s
Load timeN/A13.6 s
Memory usage0.6 GB2.6 GB
Memory %2%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

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

gemma3:4b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

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

gemma3:4b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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