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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5_moe · 35B · 4bit

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
65 vs 89
Hardware Fit
92 vs 97
Quality Score
54 vs 86

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineiMacMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i7-4771Apple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780MApple M5 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.3macOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec19.6130.2
First chunk690 ms5 ms
TTFT690 ms135 ms
Load time21.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB26.6 GB
Memory %3%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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