qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

29 vs 81

Hardware Fit

86 vs 84

Quality Score

4 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-9b

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Air

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4

Cores610

RAM7 GB32 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-9b

Tokens/sec17.920.4

First chunk1010 ms3034 ms

TTFT6.4 s3.0 s

Load time9.5 sN/A

Memory usage3.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %40%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

28/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

41/50

TTFT

14/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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