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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

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

36 vs 48

Hardware Fit

53 vs 77

Quality Score

28 vs 35

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM24 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.318.9

First chunk27 ms316 ms

TTFT20.7 s13.0 s

Load time15.4 s3.7 s

Memory usage1.0 GB5.9 GB

Memory %4%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

23/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

4/20

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

10/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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