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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
53 vs 96
Hardware Fit
82 vs 95
Quality Score
41 vs 96

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2Apple M4 Max
Cores816
RAM8 GB128 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec24.7112.8
First chunk302 ms21 ms
TTFT7.4 s1.5 s
Load time3.2 s3.5 s
Memory usage3.8 GB0.0 GB
Memory %47%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
15/20
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-a3b-thinking-…

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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