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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 72
Hardware Fit
81 vs 95
Quality Score
41 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx mistral:7b
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M2Apple M4
Cores810
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx mistral:7b
Tokens/sec24.822.0
First chunk317 msN/A
TTFT7.4 s261 ms
Load time0.0 s0.7 s
Memory usage3.9 GB10.1 GB
Memory %49%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

mistral:7b

Speed
35/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

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

mistral:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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