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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score
36 vs 64
Hardware Fit
53 vs 69
Quality Score
28 vs 62

Hardware

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MachineMac miniLENOVO 20U30029MB
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-10210U
Cores108
RAM24 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Pop 24.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.37.4
First chunk27 ms1815 ms
TTFT20.7 s1.8 s
Load time15.4 s10.9 s
Memory usage1.0 GB3.5 GB
Memory %4%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
19/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest