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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score

79 vs 81

Hardware Fit

92 vs 82

Quality Score

73 vs 81

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… gemma4:12b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… gemma4:12b-mlx

Tokens/sec22.525.3

First chunk529 ms761 ms

TTFT529 ms7.7 s

Load timeN/A3.6 s

Memory usage4.0 GB7.1 GB

Memory %13%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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