qwen3.5-2b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507-claude-4.5-sonnet-high-reasoning-distill-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_moe · 30B · MXFP4
Apr 22, 2026 · Apple M2 Max
Global Score
65 vs 95
Hardware Fit
88 vs 94
Quality Score
55 vs 96
Hardware
qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
MachineMac miniMac Studio
CPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
Cores1412
RAM64 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-30b-a3b-thin…
Tokens/sec48.980.4
First chunk4208 ms46 ms
TTFT4.2 s1.8 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB21.2 GB
Memory %3%22%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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
qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-…
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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