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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
55 vs 55
Hardware Fit
87 vs 89
Quality Score
41 vs 40

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen2.5-coder-0.5b…
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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx qwen2.5-coder-0.5b…
Tokens/sec68.213.5
First chunk3268 ms1292 ms
TTFT3.3 s1.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB0.4 GB
Memory %2%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-inst…

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-inst…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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