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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

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

79 vs 20

Hardware Fit

92 vs 37

Quality Score

73 vs 12

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… qwen3.5:27b

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/sec22.510.6

First chunk529 ms358 ms

TTFT529 ms13.7 s

Load timeN/A10.8 s

Memory usage4.0 GB39.7 GB

Memory %13%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

qwen3.5:27b

Speed

9/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

28/30

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

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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