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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 18, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Global Score
70 vs 82
Hardware Fit
93 vs 71
Quality Score
60 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook AirHP HP Pavilion Laptop 15-eh1xxx
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500U
Cores1012
RAM32 GB63 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 10.0.19044
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec32.914.3
First chunk3096 ms869 ms
TTFT3.1 s869 ms
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage2.5 GB20.5 GB
Memory %8%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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-coder: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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