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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
65 vs 85
Hardware Fit
88 vs 74
Quality Score
55 vs 89

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMac miniMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4 ProAMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1416
RAM64 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec48.922.1
First chunk4208 ms9 ms
TTFT4.2 s588 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB20.5 GB
Memory %3%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
17/30

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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