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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score
53 vs 61
Hardware Fit
81 vs 69
Quality Score
41 vs 58

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
MachineMac miniGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H
CPUApple M2Intel Core™ i5-6500
Cores84
RAM8 GB16 GB
GPUApple M2GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec24.835.7
First chunk317 ms438 ms
TTFT7.4 s5.1 s
Load time0.0 s40.1 s
Memory usage3.9 GB5.5 GB
Memory %49%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
25/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
8/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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