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qwen3.5:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 2.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
13 vs 66
Hardware Fit
41 vs 91
Quality Score
1 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3.5:2b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20L7CTO1WWMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-8350UApple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM23 GB64 GB
GPUKaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]Apple M5 Max
OSFedora Linux 43macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:2b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec4.533.2
First chunk1413 ms7 ms
TTFT31.1 s311 ms
Load time7.1 sN/A
Memory usage3.8 GB0.5 GB
Memory %16%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:2b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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