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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

GPT-20B:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · NVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )

Global Score
65 vs 93
Hardware Fit
88 vs 91
Quality Score
55 vs 94

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx GPT-20B:20b
MachineMac miniHP HyperX OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-ga0xxx5CD612DXML
CPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core ) RTX Spark N1X (6144-core GPU, 20-core )
Cores1420
RAM64 GB55 GB
GPUApple M4 ProNVIDIA RTX Spark N1X (6144-core Blackwell RTX GPU), NVIDIA NPU
OSmacOS 15.7.4Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.28000
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx GPT-20B:20b
Tokens/sec48.957.8
First chunk4208 ms203 ms
TTFT4.2 s3.0 s
Load timeN/A19.2 s
Memory usage1.6 GB12.0 GB
Memory %3%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

GPT-20B:20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
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

GPT-20B:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
18/20
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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