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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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 62
Hardware Fit
92 vs 35
Quality Score
54 vs 73

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
MachineiMacMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i7-4771Apple M4 Pro
Cores814
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780MApple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 15.7.3macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.5-4b-mlx
Tokens/sec19.60.0
First chunk690 ms5548 ms
TTFT690 ms5.5 s
Load time21.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB2.9 GB
Memory %3%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
0/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
29/30

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
17/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
8/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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