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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:32b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 32.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
65 vs 79
Hardware Fit
88 vs 59
Quality Score
55 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3:32b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925
Cores1420
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3:32b
Tokens/sec48.99.7
First chunk4208 ms324 ms
TTFT4.2 s324 ms
Load timeN/A24.5 s
Memory usage1.6 GB26.8 GB
Memory %3%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3:32b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3:32b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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