mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.5:4b-mlx
OLLAMA GGUFnvfp4
Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro
Global Score
73 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
62 vs 58
Hardware
mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec29.142.2
First chunk451 ms201 ms
TTFT451 ms4.4 s
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage0.9 GB3.8 GB
Memory %3%24%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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