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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

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
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest