qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 31.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score

70 vs 80

Hardware Fit

93 vs 98

Quality Score

60 vs 72

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-vl:30b

MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Cores1024

RAM32 GB47 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-vl:30b

Tokens/sec32.9208.9

First chunk3096 ms102 ms

TTFT3.1 s684 ms

Load timeN/A0.1 s

Memory usage2.5 GB22.0 GB

Memory %8%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-vl:30b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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-vl:30b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

12/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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