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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 59
Hardware Fit
81 vs 94
Quality Score
41 vs 44

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M2Apple M4
Cores810
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec24.845.3
First chunk317 ms2440 ms
TTFT7.4 s2.4 s
Load time0.0 sN/A
Memory usage3.9 GB0.0 GB
Memory %49%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed
40/50
TTFT
25/20
Memory
29/30

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

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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