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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 16, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-4771

Global Score
53 vs 65
Hardware Fit
81 vs 92
Quality Score
41 vs 54

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
MachineMac miniiMac
CPUApple M2Intel Core™ i7-4771
Cores88
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 15.7.3
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec24.819.6
First chunk317 ms690 ms
TTFT7.4 s690 ms
Load time0.0 s21.4 s
Memory usage3.9 GB1.0 GB
Memory %49%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
25/30

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
42/50
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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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