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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 94
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx openai/gpt-oss-20b
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 openai/gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec24.740.7
First chunk302 ms824 ms
TTFT7.4 s1.3 s
Load time3.2 sN/A
Memory usage3.8 GB11.3 GB
Memory %47%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
20/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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