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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
79 vs 70
Hardware Fit
92 vs 94
Quality Score
73 vs 60

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… mistral:7b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.522.5
First chunk529 ms252 ms
TTFT529 ms252 ms
Load timeN/A0.7 s
Memory usage4.0 GB10.1 GB
Memory %13%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

mistral:7b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
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

mistral:7b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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