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qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 65
Hardware Fit
96 vs 88
Quality Score
78 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM96 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec91.248.9
First chunk150 ms4208 ms
TTFT150 ms4.2 s
Load time5.3 sN/A
Memory usage42.5 GB1.6 GB
Memory %44%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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