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yi:6b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 6B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 52
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
67 vs 31

Hardware

yi:6b qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
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/sec27.6257.5
First chunkN/A99 ms
TTFT210 ms99 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage3.6 GB0.3 GB
Memory %11%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

yi:6b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

yi:6b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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