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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
66 vs 52
Hardware Fit
63 vs 100
Quality Score
67 vs 31

Hardware

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MachineGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3HMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-6500Apple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUGP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]Apple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec35.6257.5
First chunk224 ms99 ms
TTFT7.5 s99 ms
Load time7.7 sN/A
Memory usage4.6 GB0.3 GB
Memory %29%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
50/50
TTFT
7/20
Memory
6/30

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

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Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
10/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong 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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