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phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
51 vs 65
Hardware Fit
46 vs 88
Quality Score
53 vs 55

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M4 Pro
Cores814
RAM15 GB64 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4 Pro
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec2.648.9
First chunk5406 ms4208 ms
TTFT5.4 s4.2 s
Load time27.4 sN/A
Memory usage4.6 GB1.6 GB
Memory %30%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed
6/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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