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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
65 vs 77
Hardware Fit
88 vs 59
Quality Score
55 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx gemma4:12b
MachineMac miniASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4 ProCortex-X925
Cores1420
RAM64 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4 ProDevice 2e12
OSmacOS 15.7.4Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec48.926.8
First chunk4208 ms632 ms
TTFT4.2 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A5.4 s
Memory usage1.6 GB9.3 GB
Memory %3%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

gemma4:12b

Speed
29/50
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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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