qwen3.5:4b

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:0.5b

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 57

Hardware Fit

88 vs 100

Quality Score

76 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b qwen2.5:0.5b

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 qwen2.5:0.5b

Tokens/sec16.6165.0

TTFT369 ms81 ms

Load time1.5 s0.5 s

Memory usage6.5 GB1.7 GB

Memory %20%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

28/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/40

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

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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