qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-dense:2b

granite · 2.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

49 vs 68

Hardware Fit

83 vs 100

Quality Score

35 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx granite3.1-dense:2b

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 granite3.1-dense:2b

Tokens/sec18.654.6

TTFT2.9 s121 ms

Load time0.0 s0.4 s

Memory usage0.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %0%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

31/40

TTFT

22/30

Memory

30/30

granite3.1-dense:2b

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

granite3.1-dense:2b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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