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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

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

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx granite4.2:3b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M2Apple M1 Pro
Cores810
RAM8 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx granite4.2:3b
Tokens/sec24.746.8
First chunk302 ms135 ms
TTFT7.4 s135 ms
Load time3.2 s0.0 s
Memory usage3.8 GB12.7 GB
Memory %47%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

granite4.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

granite4.2:3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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