qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Nov 4, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-9700

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

29 vs 71

Hardware Fit

84 vs 88

Quality Score

6 vs 63

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec10.423.1

First chunk857 ms3279 ms

TTFT857 ms3.3 s

Load time41.0 sN/A

Memory usage3.0 GB2.9 GB

Memory %19%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed

34/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

45/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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