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qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_moe · 30B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 94
Hardware Fit
88 vs 100
Quality Score
63 vs 91

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b…
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 qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b…
Tokens/sec23.144.8
First chunk3279 ms405 ms
TTFT3.3 s405 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.9 GB16.0 GB
Memory %9%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

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

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen/qwen3-30b-a3b-2507

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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