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qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
77 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
67 vs 58

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M1 Pro
Cores610
RAM7 GB16 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M1 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec21.442.2
First chunk1006 ms201 ms
TTFT1.0 s4.4 s
Load time6.4 s0.0 s
Memory usage2.0 GB3.8 GB
Memory %27%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

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

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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