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mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 45
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
63 vs 22

Hardware

mlx-community/Llam… qwen2.5-math-1.5b-…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Llam… qwen2.5-math-1.5b-…
Tokens/sec50.691.7
First chunk257 ms205 ms
TTFT257 ms205 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB0.8 GB
Memory %2%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

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

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instr…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instr…

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
1/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest