qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

vicuna:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 59

Hardware Fit

88 vs 84

Quality Score

63 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx vicuna:13b

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 vicuna:13b

Tokens/sec23.113.4

First chunk3279 msN/A

TTFT3.3 s438 ms

Load timeN/A0.6 s

Memory usage2.9 GB10.3 GB

Memory %9%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

45/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

vicuna:13b

Speed

24/50

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

vicuna:13b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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