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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

mistral-small:24b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 23.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
53 vs 75
Hardware Fit
82 vs 64
Quality Score
41 vs 80

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx mistral-small:24b
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 mistral-small:24b
Tokens/sec24.714.3
First chunk302 ms327 ms
TTFT7.4 s327 ms
Load time3.2 s12.0 s
Memory usage3.8 GB18.5 GB
Memory %47%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

mistral-small:24b

Speed
14/50
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

mistral-small:24b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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