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qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
77 vs 53
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
67 vs 38

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4 Pro
Cores614
RAM7 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec21.452.9
First chunk1006 ms4013 ms
TTFT1.0 s4.0 s
Load time6.4 sN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB0.6 GB
Memory %27%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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