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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen2.5:72b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 72.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
53 vs 75
Hardware Fit
82 vs 50
Quality Score
41 vs 86

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5:72b
MachineMac miniNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M2Cortex-X925
Cores820
RAM8 GB122 GB
GPUApple M2Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.5.2Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5:72b
Tokens/sec24.74.4
First chunk302 ms529 ms
TTFT7.4 s529 ms
Load time3.2 s49.7 s
Memory usage3.8 GB54.0 GB
Memory %47%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen2.5:72b

Speed
4/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

qwen2.5:72b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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