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qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
87 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
81 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec72.032.9
First chunk7 ms3096 ms
TTFT176 ms3.1 s
Load time6.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB2.5 GB
Memory %0%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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