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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4_k_m

OPENAI GGUF
Good

Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
53 vs 62
Hardware Fit
81 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 46

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
MachineMac miniMac Studio
CPUApple M2Apple M2 Max
Cores812
RAM8 GB96 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen3-vl-4b-instru…
Tokens/sec24.867.2
First chunk317 ms66 ms
TTFT7.4 s68 ms
Load time0.0 s0.0 s
Memory usage3.9 GB0.2 GB
Memory %49%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
1/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Poor Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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