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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

qwen3.6:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 20
Hardware Fit
88 vs 34
Quality Score
55 vs 14

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.6:27b
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 qwen3.6:27b
Tokens/sec48.910.6
First chunk4208 ms1344 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage1.6 GB18.1 GB
Memory %3%75%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3.6:27b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
12/30

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

qwen3.6:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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