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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K

Global Score
71 vs 77
Hardware Fit
88 vs 75
Quality Score
63 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-13700K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec23.130.5
First chunk3279 ms291 ms
TTFT3.3 s291 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage2.9 GB8.8 GB
Memory %9%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
34/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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