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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

aya:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · F16

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 66
Hardware Fit
88 vs 92
Quality Score
63 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx aya: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 aya:8b
Tokens/sec23.120.0
First chunk3279 msN/A
TTFT3.3 s300 ms
Load timeN/A0.9 s
Memory usage2.9 GB6.0 GB
Memory %9%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

aya:8b

Speed
32/50
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

aya:8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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