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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
53 vs 84
Hardware Fit
82 vs 66
Quality Score
41 vs 92

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.8:27b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M2Cortex-X925
Cores820
RAM8 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec24.729.4
First chunk302 ms306 ms
TTFT7.4 s4.8 s
Load time3.2 s5.3 s
Memory usage3.8 GB16.2 GB
Memory %47%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
31/50
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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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