qwen3.5:4b

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

THINKING MODEL

MacBook Pro (Apple M1 Pro)

16 GB · macOS 26.6.2

Tested on August 26, 2026 · Submitted by AAA

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Global Score

68 /100

Good

Hardware Fit

86/100

Quality

60/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Pro
CPU: Apple M1 Pro
Cores: 10 total (8 perf + 2 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 16 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M1 Pro
OS: macOS 26.6.2
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 36.5
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.1
First chunk latency Delay before the first streamed chunk arrives from runtime: 207 ms
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 6.6 s
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 3.2 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 5.3 GB (33%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1429
Thinking tokens (est.) Estimated internal reasoning tokens — models with "thinking" generate more tokens: ~768

Score breakdown

Speed

50/50

Time to first token

7/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction following

12/20

Structured output

9/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.1
Runtime: Ollama 0.32.15
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: ENTRY
Result hash: 8140e5a175df09cda12216e4df00320282cd82bea55121bffed89b5a14732afa

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 86/100. Overall suitability: GOOD (Global 68/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Strong, Coding: Poor, Instruction Following: Adequate, Structured Output: Adequate, Math: Strong, Multilingual: Strong.

Bench Environment

Power: AC CPU load: avg 29% (peak 32%)

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