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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
65 vs 72
Hardware Fit
88 vs 92
Quality Score
55 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
MachineMac miniAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4 ProAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1432
RAM64 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4 ProAMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec48.9120.7
First chunk4208 ms93 ms
TTFT4.2 s1.5 s
Load timeN/A2.5 s
Memory usage1.6 GB5.8 GB
Memory %3%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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