Back to leaderboard

qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Oct 11, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 70
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
70 vs 60

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
MachineMicrosoft WSLMacBook Air
CPUAMD Ryzen 5 5500Apple M4
Cores1210
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 26.04.1 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec188.032.9
First chunk108 ms3096 ms
TTFT1.2 s3.1 s
Load time7.5 sN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB2.5 GB
Memory %21%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
View qwen3:1.7b details | View qwen3.5-2b-mlx details

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest