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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
71 vs 80
Hardware Fit
88 vs 60
Quality Score
63 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1020
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Parsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec23.114.7
First chunk3279 ms796 ms
TTFT3.3 s796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage2.9 GB17.9 GB
Memory %9%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
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

qwen3-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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