qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

53 vs 64

Hardware Fit

82 vs 100

Quality Score

41 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx microsoft/phi-4-mi…

MachineMac miniMac mini

CPUApple M2Apple M4 Pro

Cores814

RAM8 GB64 GB

GPUApple M2Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec24.790.3

First chunk302 ms198 ms

TTFT7.4 s198 ms

Load time3.2 sN/A

Memory usage3.8 GB2.0 GB

Memory %47%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

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