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qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
84 vs 83
Hardware Fit
97 vs 100
Quality Score
78 vs 76

Hardware

qwen2.5-7b-instruct qwen3.5:4b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-7b-instruct qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec24.432.4
First chunk464 ms306 ms
TTFT464 ms306 ms
Load timeN/A2.7 s
Memory usage4.0 GB6.5 GB
Memory %13%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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