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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
49 vs 61
Hardware Fit
83 vs 100
Quality Score
35 vs 44

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3:0.6b
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 qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec18.6144.3
TTFT2.9 s81 ms
Load time0.0 s0.9 s
Memory usage0.0 GB4.1 GB
Memory %0%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
40/40
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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
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