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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
70 vs 91
Hardware Fit
93 vs 99
Quality Score
60 vs 87

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Tokens/sec32.956.2
First chunk3096 ms531 ms
TTFT3.1 s531 ms
Load timeN/A32.8 s
Memory usage2.5 GB41.0 GB
Memory %8%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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