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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

granite3.1-dense:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 68
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx granite3.1-dense:2b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M2Apple M4
Cores810
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx granite3.1-dense:2b
Tokens/sec24.754.6
First chunk302 msN/A
TTFT7.4 s121 ms
Load time3.2 s0.4 s
Memory usage3.8 GB5.6 GB
Memory %47%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

granite3.1-dense:2b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

granite3.1-dense:2b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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