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qwen2.5-coder:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:2b

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 77
Hardware Fit
95 vs 100
Quality Score
72 vs 62

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:7b qwen3.5:2b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder:7b qwen3.5:2b
Tokens/sec22.130.4
TTFT285 ms215 ms
Load time0.8 s1.8 s
Memory usage7.6 GB4.5 GB
Memory %24%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed
35/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:2b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
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

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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