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mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf

OPENAI GGUF
Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
57 vs 62
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
39 vs 46

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Llam… qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
Tokens/sec126.467.8
First chunk139 ms62 ms
TTFT139 ms64 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage0.3 GB0.0 GB
Memory %1%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

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

Quality

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
10/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
1/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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