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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
49 vs 83
Hardware Fit
83 vs 80
Quality Score
35 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen2.5:14b
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-mlx qwen2.5:14b
Tokens/sec18.611.2
TTFT2.9 s539 ms
Load time0.0 s1.0 s
Memory usage0.0 GB16.5 GB
Memory %0%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
31/40
TTFT
22/30
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5:14b

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

Quality

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

qwen2.5:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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