Local Ai
Are -mlx variants equivalent to -nvfp4 for gemma4 and qwen3.6?
Ollama has added MLX support for Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 , with both MLX and NVFP4 quantization variants available for these models. There have been issues with broken Qwen3.6 NVFP4 generation on Ollama ,
Ollama has added MLX support for Qwen3.5 and Gemma 4 , with both MLX and NVFP4 quantization variants available for these models. There have been issues with broken Qwen3.6 NVFP4 generation on Ollama , suggesting the MLX variants and NVFP4 versions are not fully equivalent in current implementations, though NVFP4 is being standardized for consistency between local testing and cloud deployment .
Source: r/ollama | 2026-05-22