qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score

53 vs 86

Hardware Fit

82 vs 98

Quality Score

41 vs 81

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:30b

MachineMac miniASUS

CPUApple M2Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Cores824

RAM8 GB47 GB

GPUApple M2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics

OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:30b

Tokens/sec24.7204.8

First chunk302 ms96 ms

TTFT7.4 s674 ms

Load time3.2 s5.2 s

Memory usage3.8 GB20.5 GB

Memory %47%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

qwen3:30b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3:30b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

12/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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