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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

nemotron-3-nano:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 12, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
53 vs 84
Hardware Fit
82 vs 99
Quality Score
41 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
MachineMac miniMicrosoft WSL
CPUApple M2AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores812
RAM8 GB8 GB
GPUApple M2Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx nemotron-3-nano:4b
Tokens/sec24.7109.2
First chunk302 ms349 ms
TTFT7.4 s349 ms
Load time3.2 s7.8 s
Memory usage3.8 GB2.6 GB
Memory %47%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

nemotron-3-nano:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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