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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

microllm-50m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 49.31M · F16

Not Rec.

Jun 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 28
Hardware Fit
88 vs 80
Quality Score
55 vs 5

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx microllm-50m:latest
MachineMac miniMac mini
CPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
Cores1412
RAM64 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx microllm-50m:latest
Tokens/sec48.91000000.0
First chunk4208 ms50 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage1.6 GB0.1 GB
Memory %3%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

microllm-50m:latest

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

microllm-50m:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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