qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

77 vs 58

Hardware Fit

100 vs 68

Quality Score

67 vs 54

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini

CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4

Cores610

RAM7 GB24 GB

GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4

OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Tokens/sec21.416.7

First chunk1006 ms23 ms

TTFT1.0 s14.1 s

Load time6.4 sN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB7.8 GB

Memory %27%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed

36/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

29/30

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

9/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

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