qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

79 vs 70

Hardware Fit

92 vs 93

Quality Score

73 vs 60

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.532.9

First chunk529 ms3096 ms

TTFT529 ms3.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.0 GB2.5 GB

Memory %13%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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