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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
50 vs 77
Hardware Fit
93 vs 67
Quality Score
31 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMicrosoft WSLMac mini
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4 Pro
Cores1214
RAM8 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec92.620.3
First chunk323 ms4216 ms
TTFT2.8 s4.2 s
Load time9.0 sN/A
Memory usage2.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %38%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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