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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t24-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score
65 vs 34
Hardware Fit
88 vs 45
Quality Score
55 vs 29

Hardware

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MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i9-14900K
Cores1432
RAM64 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec48.916.5
First chunk4208 ms772 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A11.6 s
Memory usage1.6 GB22.0 GB
Memory %3%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t24-c8k…

Speed
15/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-t24-c8k…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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