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qwen3.5:4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

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Marginal

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M2

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 70
Hardware Fit
81 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5-coder-1.5b…
MachineMac miniMacBook Air
CPUApple M2Apple M4
Cores810
RAM8 GB32 GB
GPUApple M2Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.5.2macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b-mlx qwen2.5-coder-1.5b…
Tokens/sec24.858.4
First chunk317 ms234 ms
TTFT7.4 s234 ms
Load time0.0 sN/A
Memory usage3.9 GB1.5 GB
Memory %49%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

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-inst…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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