mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Global Score
74 vs 53
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
63 vs 38
Hardware
mlx-community/Llam… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/Llam… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec50.613.2
First chunk257 ms1339 ms
TTFT257 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB0.4 GB
Memory %2%2%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/Llama-3.2…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct
Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30
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
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct
Reasoning
5/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
Run yours and compare
$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest