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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
53 vs 76
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 65

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
MachineMac miniMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M2AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores812
RAM8 GB8 GB
GPUApple M2Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec24.7161.3
First chunk302 ms51 ms
TTFT7.4 s51 ms
Load time3.2 s5.2 s
Memory usage3.8 GB1.6 GB
Memory %47%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30

qwen3:1.7b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
4/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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