qwen3.5-2b-mlx

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:latest

llama · 7.2B · Q4_0

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

49 vs 72

Hardware Fit

83 vs 100

Quality Score

35 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx mistral:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac Mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx mistral:latest

Tokens/sec18.654.3

TTFT2.9 s124 ms

Load time0.0 s0.0 s

Memory usage0.0 GB9.9 GB

Memory %0%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

31/40

TTFT

22/30

Memory

30/30

mistral:latest

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

mistral:latest

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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