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qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
73 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
62 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3:0.6b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:0.6b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec145.232.9
First chunkN/A3096 ms
TTFT1.4 s3.1 s
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage4.1 GB2.5 GB
Memory %13%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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