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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3-30B:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 19, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor

Global Score
70 vs 88
Hardware Fit
93 vs 91
Quality Score
60 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b
MachineMacBook AirHP HyperX OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-ap1xxx
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 16-Core Processor
Cores1032
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) 610M, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Home 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx Qwen3-30B:30b
Tokens/sec32.942.8
First chunk3096 ms434 ms
TTFT3.1 s434 ms
Load timeN/A19.9 s
Memory usage2.5 GB17.9 GB
Memory %8%58%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
21/30

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

Qwen3-30B:30b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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