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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
60 vs 94
Hardware Fit
96 vs 92
Quality Score
44 vs 95

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx gpt-oss:20b
Tokens/sec108.054.5
First chunk2568 ms318 ms
TTFT2.6 s2.9 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage1.0 GB16.4 GB
Memory %3%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
30/30

gpt-oss:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

gpt-oss:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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