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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
70 vs 18
Hardware Fit
93 vs 53
Quality Score
60 vs 3

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.5:0.8b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM32 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec32.99.4
First chunk3096 ms799 ms
TTFT3.1 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage2.5 GB1.9 GB
Memory %8%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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