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qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vl · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

smollm2-360m-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 360M · bf16

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
87 vs 52
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
81 vs 32

Hardware

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MachineMac StudioMacBook Air
CPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
Cores1210
RAM96 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2 MaxApple M4
OSmacOS 26.1macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec72.0121.1
First chunk7 ms106 ms
TTFT176 ms106 ms
Load time6.7 sN/A
Memory usage0.0 GB0.7 GB
Memory %0%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct

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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

smollm2-360m-instruct

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
7/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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