qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

29 vs 59

Hardware Fit

86 vs 65

Quality Score

4 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4

Cores610

RAM7 GB24 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec17.914.3

First chunk1010 ms24 ms

TTFT6.4 s13.4 s

Load time9.5 s13.3 s

Memory usage3.0 GB2.5 GB

Memory %40%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

28/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

32/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

30/30

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-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

9/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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