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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

solar:10.7b

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
49 vs 63
Hardware Fit
83 vs 87
Quality Score
35 vs 52

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx solar:10.7b
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 solar:10.7b
Tokens/sec18.615.8
TTFT2.9 s353 ms
Load time0.0 s0.4 s
Memory usage0.0 GB6.6 GB
Memory %0%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

solar:10.7b

Speed
27/40
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

solar:10.7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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