qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

codegemma:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma · 9B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 71

Hardware Fit

93 vs 91

Quality Score

60 vs 62

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx codegemma:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx codegemma:7b

Tokens/sec32.918.7

First chunk3096 msN/A

TTFT3.1 s320 ms

Load timeN/A0.8 s

Memory usage2.5 GB8.7 GB

Memory %8%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

codegemma:7b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

30/20

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

codegemma:7b

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest