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llama-3.2-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
50 vs 52
Hardware Fit
79 vs 100
Quality Score
37 vs 31

Hardware

llama-3.2-1b-instr… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama-3.2-1b-instr… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec9.9257.5
First chunk1668 ms99 ms
TTFT1.7 s99 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.8 GB0.3 GB
Memory %5%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Speed
32/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

llama-3.2-1b-instruct

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest