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qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
32 vs 58
Hardware Fit
98 vs 68
Quality Score
4 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4
Cores610
RAM7 GB24 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec17.916.7
First chunk950 ms23 ms
TTFT950 ms14.1 s
Load time9.7 sN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB7.8 GB
Memory %40%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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