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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

79 vs 63

Hardware Fit

92 vs 62

Quality Score

73 vs 63

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… gemma4:12b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-7b-i… gemma4:12b

Tokens/sec22.515.3

First chunk529 ms1142 ms

TTFT529 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A5.4 s

Memory usage4.0 GB7.6 GB

Memory %13%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

gemma4:12b

Speed

36/50

TTFT

0/20

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

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

14/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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