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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

mistral-nemo:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
69 vs 71
Hardware Fit
86 vs 86
Quality Score
62 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b mistral-nemo:12b
MachineMacBook ProMacBook Air
CPUApple M1 ProApple M4
Cores1010
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUApple M1 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 26.6.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b mistral-nemo:12b
Tokens/sec36.714.6
First chunk207 msN/A
TTFT6.6 s371 ms
Load time3.0 s1.0 s
Memory usage5.3 GB13.3 GB
Memory %33%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
30/20
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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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$ metrillm

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