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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score
53 vs 68
Hardware Fit
89 vs 100
Quality Score
38 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20U30029MB
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i5-10210U
Cores148
RAM64 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4 ProCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Pop 24.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
Tokens/sec52.921.8
First chunk4013 ms499 ms
TTFT4.0 s499 ms
Load timeN/A4.4 s
Memory usage0.6 GB1.5 GB
Memory %1%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

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

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

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