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qwen3.5-4b-4bit on Apple M2

Real measured local-inference performance for qwen3.5-4b-4bit on an Apple M2 (24 GB unified memory), from the rapid-mlx community benchmark corpus. Latest submission 2026-08-15, measured on rapid-mlx 0.12.12.

15.5
tok/s decode
93.1
tok/s prefill
23.1 s
first token
4.4 GB
peak memory

A single community run so far — treat it as one data point, not a distribution. Reproduce it below and submit yours to firm it up.

All measurements for this pair

RAMAccelDecodePrefillTTFTPeak memRunsrapid-mlxLatest
24 GB15.5 tok/s93.1 tok/s23.1 s4.4 GB10.12.122026-08-15

Standardized single-request benchmark: 5 measured rounds after 1 discarded warmup, greedy sampling, prefix cache disabled. Raw corpus: /api/benchmarks.

Reproduce this number

Install rapid-mlx, run the same suite on your Mac, and submit the result — it lands on the community leaderboard and updates this page.

$ curl -fsSL https://rapidmlx.com/install.sh | bash
$ rapid-mlx bench qwen3.5-4b-4bit --tier speed --submit

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