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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3-vl:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 31.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
53 vs 80
Hardware Fit
82 vs 98
Quality Score
41 vs 72

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-vl:30b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M2Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores824
RAM8 GB47 GB
GPUApple M2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-vl:30b
Tokens/sec24.7208.9
First chunk302 ms102 ms
TTFT7.4 s684 ms
Load time3.2 s0.1 s
Memory usage3.8 GB22.0 GB
Memory %47%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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-vl:30b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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