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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3_text · 270M · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 43
Hardware Fit
88 vs 99
Quality Score
55 vs 19

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4
Cores1410
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx gemma-3-270m-it-qa…
Tokens/sec48.9344.2
First chunk4208 ms173 ms
TTFT4.2 s173 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB0.3 GB
Memory %3%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

gemma-3-270m-it-qat-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest