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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
65 vs 59
Hardware Fit
92 vs 65
Quality Score
54 vs 57

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineiMacMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i7-4771Apple M4
Cores810
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce GTX 780MApple M4
OSmacOS 15.7.3macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec19.614.3
First chunk690 ms24 ms
TTFT690 ms13.4 s
Load time21.4 s13.3 s
Memory usage1.0 GB2.5 GB
Memory %3%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
9/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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