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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 22, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
53 vs 88
Hardware Fit
82 vs 90
Quality Score
41 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5:35b-a3b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M2AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores832
RAM8 GB125 GB
GPUApple M2Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5:35b-a3b
Tokens/sec24.742.0
First chunk302 ms243 ms
TTFT7.4 s243 ms
Load time3.2 s9.7 s
Memory usage3.8 GB32.1 GB
Memory %47%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed
40/50
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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