qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 69

Quality Score

61 vs 54

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec52.330.5

First chunk285 ms333 ms

TTFT285 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A9.8 s

Memory usage1.6 GB25.1 GB

Memory %5%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

24/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

6/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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