qwen3.5:4b

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

neural-chat:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 67

Hardware Fit

88 vs 96

Quality Score

76 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b neural-chat:7b

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 neural-chat:7b

Tokens/sec16.622.5

TTFT369 ms242 ms

Load time1.5 s0.4 s

Memory usage6.5 GB4.5 GB

Memory %20%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

28/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

neural-chat:7b

Speed

36/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

neural-chat:7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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