qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3.5-lightning:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

nemotron_h_moe · 32.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 17, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

79 vs 87

Hardware Fit

92 vs 80

Quality Score

73 vs 90

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… nemotron-3.5-light…

MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.584.1

First chunk529 ms371 ms

TTFT529 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A0.3 s

Memory usage4.0 GB24.9 GB

Memory %13%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

nemotron-3.5-lightning:…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

13/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest