qwen3.5:2b

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 49

Hardware Fit

100 vs 83

Quality Score

62 vs 35

Hardware

qwen3.5:2b 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

qwen3.5:2b qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Tokens/sec30.418.6

TTFT215 ms2.9 s

Load time1.8 s0.0 s

Memory usage4.5 GB0.0 GB

Memory %14%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:2b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

31/40

TTFT

22/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

4/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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