qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/magistral-small-2509

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

49 vs 20

Hardware Fit

83 vs 65

Quality Score

35 vs 0

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx mistralai/magistra…

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 mistralai/magistra…

Tokens/sec18.65.1

TTFT2.9 s2.0 s

Load time0.0 s0.0 s

Memory usage0.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %0%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

31/40

TTFT

22/30

Memory

30/30

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Speed

8/40

TTFT

27/30

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

mistralai/magistral-sma…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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