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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
53 vs 89
Hardware Fit
82 vs 96
Quality Score
41 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2Apple M4 Max
Cores816
RAM8 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.5.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec24.789.9
First chunk302 ms188 ms
TTFT7.4 s188 ms
Load time3.2 s4.0 s
Memory usage3.8 GB30.2 GB
Memory %47%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

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

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-coder:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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