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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
69 vs 65
Hardware Fit
86 vs 88
Quality Score
62 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMacBook ProMac mini
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec36.748.9
First chunk207 ms4208 ms
TTFT6.6 s4.2 s
Load time3.0 sN/A
Memory usage5.3 GB1.6 GB
Memory %33%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong 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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