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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
70 vs 71
Hardware Fit
93 vs 56
Quality Score
60 vs 78

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 IoT Enterprise LTSC 10.0.26100
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec32.95.3
First chunk3096 ms1624 ms
TTFT3.1 s1.6 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage2.5 GB7.9 GB
Memory %8%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
11/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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