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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 17, 2026 · ZHAOXIN KaiXian KX-7000 KaiXian KX-7000

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
65 vs 53
Hardware Fit
87 vs 89
Quality Score
56 vs 38

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineShanghai Zhaoxin Semiconductor Co., Ltd. ZXE CRBMac mini
CPUZHAOXIN KaiXian KX-7000 KaiXian KX-7000Apple M4 Pro
Cores814
RAM30 GB64 GB
GPUZX C-1190Apple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26100macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec16.852.9
First chunk941 ms4013 ms
TTFT941 ms4.0 s
Load time0.2 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB0.6 GB
Memory %3%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
37/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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