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qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
87 vs 36
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct qwen36-distill-apex
MachineMac StudioMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M5 Max
Cores1218
RAM96 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec71.255.2
First chunk4 ms210 ms
TTFT156 ms210 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage20.5 GB0.9 GB
Memory %21%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

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

qwen36-distill-apex

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

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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