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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
65 vs 80
Hardware Fit
88 vs 60
Quality Score
55 vs 88

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMac miniASUS
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1420
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProParsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec48.914.7
First chunk4208 ms796 ms
TTFT4.2 s796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage1.6 GB17.9 GB
Memory %3%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
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-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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