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mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
53 vs 36
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
33 vs 8

Hardware

mlx-community/Nanb… qwen36-distill-apex
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec25.455.2
First chunk266 ms210 ms
TTFT266 ms210 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage0.0 GB0.9 GB
Memory %0%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen36-distill-apex

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

Quality

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Weak

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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