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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
65 vs 36
Hardware Fit
88 vs 100
Quality Score
55 vs 8

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen36-distill-apex
MachineMac miniMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
Cores1418
RAM64 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4 ProApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec48.955.2
First chunk4208 ms210 ms
TTFT4.2 s210 ms
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage1.6 GB0.9 GB
Memory %3%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Speed
50/50
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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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