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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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
83 vs 58
Hardware Fit
96 vs 68
Quality Score
78 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB24 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec91.216.7
First chunk150 ms23 ms
TTFT150 ms14.1 s
Load time5.3 sN/A
Memory usage42.5 GB7.8 GB
Memory %44%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

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
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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