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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 70
Hardware Fit
93 vs 93
Quality Score
31 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-2b-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

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec92.632.9
First chunk323 ms3096 ms
TTFT2.8 s3.1 s
Load time9.0 sN/A
Memory usage2.9 GB2.5 GB
Memory %38%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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