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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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
61 vs 59
Hardware Fit
69 vs 65
Quality Score
58 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Apple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec35.714.3
First chunk438 ms24 ms
TTFT5.1 s13.4 s
Load time40.1 s13.3 s
Memory usage5.5 GB2.5 GB
Memory %35%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

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
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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