qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

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OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

60 vs 47

Hardware Fit

96 vs 51

Quality Score

44 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx deepseek-r1:70b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec108.04.7

First chunk2568 ms557 ms

TTFT2.6 s557 ms

Load timeN/A52.6 s

Memory usage1.0 GB49.5 GB

Memory %3%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

16/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

4/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

Quality

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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

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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