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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
70 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineMicrosoft WSLMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec191.423.1
First chunk70 ms3279 ms
TTFT1.1 s3.3 s
Load time4.6 sN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB2.9 GB
Memory %21%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
45/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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