qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

orca-mini:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 55

Hardware Fit

93 vs 98

Quality Score

60 vs 37

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx orca-mini: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 orca-mini:7b

Tokens/sec32.924.4

First chunk3096 msN/A

TTFT3.1 s219 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage2.5 GB5.8 GB

Memory %8%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

Memory

30/30

orca-mini:7b

Speed

38/50

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

orca-mini:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest