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qwen3-vl:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 2.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
62 vs 59
Hardware Fit
99 vs 65
Quality Score
46 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3-vl:2b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineAZW GTR ProMac mini
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB24 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3-vl:2b qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec127.414.3
First chunk101 ms24 ms
TTFT630 ms13.4 s
Load time5.9 s13.3 s
Memory usage33.2 GB2.5 GB
Memory %27%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-vl:2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
32/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3-vl:2b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
7/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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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