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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

73 vs 89

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

61 vs 86

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… qwen3.6:35b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Tokens/sec52.3129.4

First chunk285 ms49 ms

TTFT285 ms49 ms

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage1.6 GB20.5 GB

Memory %5%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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