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qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Nov 4, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-9700

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
29 vs 81
Hardware Fit
84 vs 84
Quality Score
6 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-9b
MachineVMware, Inc. VMware Virtual PlatformMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i7-9700Apple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-9b
Tokens/sec10.420.4
First chunk857 ms3034 ms
TTFT857 ms3.0 s
Load time41.0 sN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB5.6 GB
Memory %19%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed
41/50
TTFT
14/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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