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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 74
Hardware Fit
88 vs 91
Quality Score
63 vs 66

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx granite3.1-dense:8b
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 granite3.1-dense:8b
Tokens/sec23.118.8
First chunk3279 msN/A
TTFT3.3 s308 ms
Load timeN/A0.6 s
Memory usage2.9 GB13.0 GB
Memory %9%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
45/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

granite3.1-dense:8b

Speed
31/50
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

granite3.1-dense:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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