qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 54

Hardware Fit

77 vs 100

Quality Score

35 vs 34

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b falcon3-1b-instruct

MachineMac miniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b falcon3-1b-instruct

Tokens/sec18.9121.8

First chunk316 ms176 ms

TTFT13.0 s176 ms

Load time3.7 sN/A

Memory usage5.9 GB0.7 GB

Memory %37%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

falcon3-1b-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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

falcon3-1b-instruct

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

7/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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