qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder:6.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 57

Hardware Fit

88 vs 98

Quality Score

63 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx deepseek-coder:6.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx deepseek-coder:6.7b

Tokens/sec23.124.1

First chunk3279 msN/A

TTFT3.3 s251 ms

Load timeN/A0.9 s

Memory usage2.9 GB12.6 GB

Memory %9%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

45/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

6/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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