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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

Qwen3-30B:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H

Global Score
53 vs 88
Hardware Fit
82 vs 90
Quality Score
41 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b
MachineMac miniGMKtec NucBox EVO-T2S
CPUApple M2Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H
Cores816
RAM8 GB64 GB
GPUApple M2Intel(R) Arc(TM) B390 GPU
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b
Tokens/sec24.731.0
First chunk302 ms549 ms
TTFT7.4 s549 ms
Load time3.2 s14.3 s
Memory usage3.8 GB17.7 GB
Memory %47%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed
40/50
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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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