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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-0.6b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 0.6B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
70 vs 40
Hardware Fit
93 vs 89
Quality Score
60 vs 19

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-0.6b
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 qwen3-0.6b
Tokens/sec32.914.4
First chunk3096 ms854 ms
TTFT3.1 s854 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.5 GB0.5 GB
Memory %8%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3-0.6b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen3-0.6b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
4/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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