qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

84 vs 71

Hardware Fit

97 vs 95

Quality Score

78 vs 60

Hardware

qwen2.5-7b-instruct llama3:latest

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 llama3:latest

Tokens/sec24.422.3

First chunk464 msN/A

TTFT464 ms295 ms

Load timeN/A0.8 s

Memory usage4.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %13%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Speed

47/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3:latest

Speed

35/50

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

llama3:latest

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest