qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

49 vs 47

Hardware Fit

83 vs 53

Quality Score

35 vs 45

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec18.611.3

TTFT2.9 s9.2 s

Load time0.0 s0.1 s

Memory usage0.0 GB7.2 GB

Memory %0%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

31/40

TTFT

22/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/40

TTFT

6/30

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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