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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 9B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Mar 14, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

79 vs 72

Hardware Fit

92 vs 51

Quality Score

73 vs 81

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… qwen3.5-9b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… qwen3.5-9b

Tokens/sec22.514.4

First chunk529 ms4 ms

TTFT529 ms824 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage4.0 GB48.3 GB

Memory %13%151%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

0/30

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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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