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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
70 vs 82
Hardware Fit
93 vs 69
Quality Score
60 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec32.920.4
First chunk3096 ms1362 ms
TTFT3.1 s1.4 s
Load timeN/A34.2 s
Memory usage2.5 GB22.7 GB
Memory %8%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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