qwen2.5:0.5b

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 39

Hardware Fit

99 vs 66

Quality Score

33 vs 21

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:0.5b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec162.721.8

TTFT81 ms9.6 s

Load time0.5 s3.5 s

Memory usage1.7 GB0.0 GB

Memory %5%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

5/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

4/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

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