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qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
32 vs 68
Hardware Fit
98 vs 91
Quality Score
4 vs 58

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M1 Pro
Cores610
RAM7 GB16 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec17.942.2
First chunk950 ms201 ms
TTFT950 ms4.4 s
Load time9.7 s0.0 s
Memory usage3.0 GB3.8 GB
Memory %40%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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