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qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 8.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 28, 2026 · Intel Xeon® Gold 6230

Global Score
70 vs 72
Hardware Fit
93 vs 89
Quality Score
60 vs 64

Hardware

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-vl:8b
MachineMacBook AirHP HP Z8 G4 Workstation
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® Gold 6230
Cores1080
RAM32 GB252 GB
GPUApple M4TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5-2b-mlx qwen3-vl:8b
Tokens/sec32.968.2
First chunk3096 ms285 ms
TTFT3.1 s2.0 s
Load timeN/A42.4 s
Memory usage2.5 GB7.1 GB
Memory %8%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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-vl:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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