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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
65 vs 65
Hardware Fit
88 vs 92
Quality Score
55 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMac miniiMac
CPUApple M4 ProIntel Core™ i7-4771
Cores148
RAM64 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec48.919.6
First chunk4208 ms690 ms
TTFT4.2 s690 ms
Load timeN/A21.4 s
Memory usage1.6 GB1.0 GB
Memory %3%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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