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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
65 vs 82
Hardware Fit
92 vs 80
Quality Score
54 vs 83

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineiMacMac Studio
CPUIntel Core™ i7-4771Apple M2 Max
Cores812
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780MApple M2 Max
OSmacOS 15.7.3macOS 26.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec19.654.7
First chunk690 ms32 ms
TTFT690 ms30.0 s
Load time21.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB30.3 GB
Memory %3%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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