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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 48
Hardware Fit
100 vs 77
Quality Score
39 vs 35

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Llam… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec126.418.9
First chunk139 ms316 ms
TTFT139 ms13.0 s
Load timeN/A3.7 s
Memory usage0.3 GB5.9 GB
Memory %1%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
4/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

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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