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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 50
Hardware Fit
88 vs 100
Quality Score
55 vs 29

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec48.993.6
First chunk4208 ms166 ms
TTFT4.2 s166 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB0.7 GB
Memory %3%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

mlx-community/stablelm-…

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

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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