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qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
84 vs 20
Hardware Fit
97 vs 37
Quality Score
78 vs 12

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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Tokens/sec24.410.6
First chunk464 ms358 ms
TTFT464 ms13.7 s
Load timeN/A10.8 s
Memory usage4.0 GB39.7 GB
Memory %13%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:27b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.5:27b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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