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qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
13 vs 47
Hardware Fit
41 vs 67
Quality Score
1 vs 38

Hardware

qwen3.5:2b qwen3:8b
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M4
Cores810
RAM23 GB32 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M4
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:2b qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec4.518.7
First chunk1413 msN/A
TTFT31.1 s12.1 s
Load time7.1 s1.2 s
Memory usage3.8 GB9.5 GB
Memory %16%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:2b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:2b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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