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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
65 vs 57
Hardware Fit
88 vs 100
Quality Score
55 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx gemma3:1b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-A78AE
Cores146
RAM64 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4 ProIntegrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx gemma3:1b
Tokens/sec48.933.9
First chunk4208 ms1939 ms
TTFT4.2 s1.9 s
Load timeN/A1.8 s
Memory usage1.6 GB0.8 GB
Memory %3%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

gemma3:1b

Speed
50/50
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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
8/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest