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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

GPT-120B:120b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 116.8B · MXFP4

Good

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ i7-14700F

Global Score
52 vs 79
Hardware Fit
100 vs 47
Quality Score
31 vs 93

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… GPT-120B:120b
MachineMacBook AirHP OMEN 35L VALORANT Limited Edition Gaming Desktop PC
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i7-14700F
Cores1028
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… GPT-120B:120b
Tokens/sec257.518.2
First chunk99 ms1719 ms
TTFT99 ms3.9 s
Load timeN/A50.9 s
Memory usage0.3 GB61.5 GB
Memory %1%48%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

GPT-120B:120b

Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
Memory
25/30

Quality

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

GPT-120B:120b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest