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qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
48 vs 62
Hardware Fit
77 vs 35
Quality Score
35 vs 73

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.90.0
First chunk316 ms5548 ms
TTFT13.0 s5.5 s
Load time3.7 sN/A
Memory usage5.9 GB2.9 GB
Memory %37%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
4/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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