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qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
87 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 66
Quality Score
81 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct qwen3.6:35b
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM96 GB48 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct qwen3.6:35b
Tokens/sec71.630.6
First chunk5 ms304 ms
TTFT157 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A10.0 s
Memory usage20.5 GB28.1 GB
Memory %21%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

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

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

Quality

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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