mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.5:4b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M
Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
73 vs 48
Hardware Fit
100 vs 77
Quality Score
62 vs 35
Hardware
mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/Yi-1… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec29.118.9
First chunk451 ms316 ms
TTFT451 ms13.0 s
Load timeN/A3.7 s
Memory usage0.9 GB5.9 GB
Memory %3%37%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5:4b
Speed
43/50
TTFT
4/20
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
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest