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qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
73 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
62 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:2b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:2b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec30.433.2
First chunkN/A7 ms
TTFT215 ms311 ms
Load time1.8 sN/A
Memory usage4.5 GB0.5 GB
Memory %14%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:2b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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