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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
53 vs 84
Hardware Fit
81 vs 97
Quality Score
41 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:8b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M2Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores824
RAM8 GB47 GB
GPUApple M2NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.5.2Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec24.8208.0
First chunk317 ms82 ms
TTFT7.4 s1.3 s
Load time0.0 s1.5 s
Memory usage3.9 GB9.6 GB
Memory %49%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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