qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-0.8b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 0.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

70 vs 48

Hardware Fit

93 vs 61

Quality Score

60 vs 42

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.5-0.8b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.5-0.8b

Tokens/sec32.96.2

First chunk3096 ms4461 ms

TTFT3.1 s4.5 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.5 GB0.7 GB

Memory %8%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b

Speed

22/50

TTFT

12/20

Memory

27/30

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

qwen3.5-0.8b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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