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qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 84
Hardware Fit
96 vs 94
Quality Score
78 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M1 Pro
Cores1210
RAM96 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec90.625.0
First chunk159 ms357 ms
TTFT159 ms357 ms
Load time5.8 s3.8 s
Memory usage42.5 GB8.4 GB
Memory %44%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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