qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

71 vs 57

Hardware Fit

88 vs 100

Quality Score

63 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3.5-4b-mlx gemma3:1b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-4b-mlx gemma3:1b

Tokens/sec23.133.7

First chunk3279 ms2039 ms

TTFT3.3 s2.0 s

Load timeN/A7.3 s

Memory usage2.9 GB0.8 GB

Memory %9%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

45/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

gemma3:1b

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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

8/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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