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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

Global Score
53 vs 68
Hardware Fit
82 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
MachineMac miniLENOVO 20U30029MB
CPUApple M2Intel Core™ i5-10210U
Cores88
RAM8 GB15 GB
GPUApple M2CometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.5.2Pop 24.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5-coder:1.5b
Tokens/sec24.721.8
First chunk302 ms499 ms
TTFT7.4 s499 ms
Load time3.2 s4.4 s
Memory usage3.8 GB1.5 GB
Memory %47%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

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:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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