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qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 4B · Q4_1

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 55
Hardware Fit
96 vs 87
Quality Score
51 vs 41

Hardware

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec99.668.2
First chunk18 ms3268 ms
TTFT1.6 s3.3 s
Load time4.8 sN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB0.6 GB
Memory %0%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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