qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit
Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4
llama3.2:1b
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 1.2B · Q8_0
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
55 vs 63
Hardware Fit
87 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 47
Hardware
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx llama3.2:1b
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 llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec68.240.2
First chunk3268 ms1087 ms
TTFT3.3 s1.1 s
Load timeN/A6.2 s
Memory usage0.6 GB1.4 GB
Memory %2%19%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30
llama3.2:1b
Speed
50/50
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
llama3.2:1b
Reasoning
4/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest