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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
71 vs 84
Hardware Fit
88 vs 97
Quality Score
63 vs 79

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB47 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec23.1208.0
First chunk3279 ms82 ms
TTFT3.3 s1.3 s
Load timeN/A1.5 s
Memory usage2.9 GB9.6 GB
Memory %9%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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