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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

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Global Score

36 vs 82

Hardware Fit

53 vs 93

Quality Score

28 vs 77

Hardware

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MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395 w/ Radeon 8060S

Cores1032

RAM24 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Apple Silicon

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.346.8

First chunk27 ms174 ms

TTFT20.7 s174 ms

Load time15.4 s5.9 s

Memory usage1.0 GB16.2 GB

Memory %4%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

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

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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