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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 68
Hardware Fit
92 vs 91
Quality Score
54 vs 58

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
MachineiMacMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i7-4771Apple M1 Pro
Cores810
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780MApple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.3macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.5:4b-mlx
Tokens/sec19.642.2
First chunk690 ms201 ms
TTFT690 ms4.4 s
Load time21.4 s0.0 s
Memory usage1.0 GB3.8 GB
Memory %3%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
11/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
7/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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