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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
53 vs 80
Hardware Fit
82 vs 85
Quality Score
41 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:8b
MachineMac miniHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M2Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores880
RAM8 GB252 GB
GPUApple M2TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec24.765.1
First chunk302 ms289 ms
TTFT7.4 s4.2 s
Load time3.2 s4.6 s
Memory usage3.8 GB5.6 GB
Memory %47%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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