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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 27.3B · Q4_K

Excellent

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12600K

Global Score
65 vs 90
Hardware Fit
88 vs 97
Quality Score
55 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_…
MachineMac mini—
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12600K
Cores1416
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4 ProAlderLake-S GT1, AD106 [GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB]
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_…
Tokens/sec48.939.0
First chunk4208 ms305 ms
TTFT4.2 s305 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage1.6 GB12.5 GB
Memory %3%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
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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