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qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
87 vs 4
Hardware Fit
100 vs 13
Quality Score
81 vs 0

Hardware

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct qwen3.5:27b
MachineMac StudioMac mini
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB24 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct qwen3.5:27b
Tokens/sec72.03.5
First chunk7 ms1781 ms
TTFT176 ms52.0 s
Load time6.7 s13.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB21.3 GB
Memory %0%89%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
7/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
6/30

Quality

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:27b

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