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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:70b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
71 vs 47
Hardware Fit
88 vs 51
Quality Score
63 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx deepseek-r1:70b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec23.14.7
First chunk3279 ms557 ms
TTFT3.3 s557 ms
Load timeN/A52.6 s
Memory usage2.9 GB49.5 GB
Memory %9%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

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Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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