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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

internlm2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

internlm2 · 7.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 77
Hardware Fit
93 vs 95
Quality Score
60 vs 69

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx internlm2:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx internlm2:7b
Tokens/sec32.922.7
First chunk3096 ms250 ms
TTFT3.1 s250 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage2.5 GB10.6 GB
Memory %8%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

internlm2:7b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

internlm2:7b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest