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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

36 vs 62

Hardware Fit

53 vs 35

Quality Score

28 vs 73

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM24 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.30.0

First chunk27 ms5548 ms

TTFT20.7 s5.5 s

Load time15.4 sN/A

Memory usage1.0 GB2.9 GB

Memory %4%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

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Reasoning

3/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

3/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

8/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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