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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score
60 vs 82
Hardware Fit
96 vs 93
Quality Score
44 vs 77

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Apple Silicon
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec108.046.8
First chunk2568 ms174 ms
TTFT2.6 s174 ms
Load timeN/A5.9 s
Memory usage1.0 GB16.2 GB
Memory %3%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest