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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen2.5-coder:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
53 vs 73
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 61

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:3b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M2Cortex-A78AE
Cores86
RAM8 GB7 GB
GPUApple M2Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:3b
Tokens/sec24.721.3
First chunk302 ms969 ms
TTFT7.4 s969 ms
Load time3.2 s6.6 s
Memory usage3.8 GB2.0 GB
Memory %47%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30

qwen2.5-coder:3b

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

Quality

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
4/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen2.5-coder:3b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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