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qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
84 vs 61
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 44

Hardware

qwen2.5-7b-instruct qwen3:0.6b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-7b-instruct qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec24.4144.3
First chunk464 msN/A
TTFT464 ms81 ms
Load timeN/A0.9 s
Memory usage4.0 GB4.1 GB
Memory %13%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

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