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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 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

36 vs 69

Hardware Fit

53 vs 86

Quality Score

28 vs 62

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM24 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.336.7

First chunk27 ms207 ms

TTFT20.7 s6.6 s

Load time15.4 s3.0 s

Memory usage1.0 GB5.3 GB

Memory %4%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

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

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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