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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 70
Hardware Fit
88 vs 66
Quality Score
55 vs 71

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.6:35b
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1414
RAM64 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.6:35b
Tokens/sec48.930.6
First chunk4208 ms304 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A10.0 s
Memory usage1.6 GB28.1 GB
Memory %3%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3.6:35b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
21/30

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

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
6/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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