qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
ministral-3:8b
OLLAMA GGUFmistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M
Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro
Global Score
55 vs 72
Hardware Fit
87 vs 71
Quality Score
41 vs 72
Hardware
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec68.219.8
First chunk3268 ms269 ms
TTFT3.3 s269 ms
Load timeN/A10.7 s
Memory usage0.6 GB13.7 GB
Memory %2%86%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30
ministral-3:8b
Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
7/30
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
ministral-3:8b
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest