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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
53 vs 77
Hardware Fit
82 vs 74
Quality Score
41 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx phi4:14b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M2Cortex-X925
Cores820
RAM8 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx phi4:14b
Tokens/sec24.722.9
First chunk302 ms198 ms
TTFT7.4 s198 ms
Load time3.2 s10.3 s
Memory usage3.8 GB14.7 GB
Memory %47%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

phi4:14b

Speed
24/50
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

phi4:14b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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