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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
71 vs 58
Hardware Fit
88 vs 82
Quality Score
63 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3:14b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3:14b
Tokens/sec23.124.4
First chunk3279 ms294 ms
TTFT3.3 s7.9 s
Load timeN/A3.7 s
Memory usage2.9 GB13.8 GB
Memory %9%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen3:14b

Speed
47/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:14b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
9/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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