qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder-1.3b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

71 vs 30

Hardware Fit

88 vs 66

Quality Score

63 vs 14

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec23.17.1

First chunk3279 ms3448 ms

TTFT3.3 s3.4 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.9 GB1.3 GB

Memory %9%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

45/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-coder-1.3b-ins…

Speed

24/50

TTFT

15/20

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

deepseek-coder-1.3b-ins…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

6/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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