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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
61 vs 84
Hardware Fit
69 vs 94
Quality Score
58 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Apple M1 Pro
Cores410
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Apple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec35.725.0
First chunk438 ms357 ms
TTFT5.1 s357 ms
Load time40.1 s3.8 s
Memory usage5.5 GB8.4 GB
Memory %35%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
8/30

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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