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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm-2-zephyr-1.6b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

stablelm · 1.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
52 vs 35
Hardware Fit
100 vs 61
Quality Score
31 vs 24

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… stablelm-2-zephyr-…
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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… stablelm-2-zephyr-…
Tokens/sec257.56.5
First chunk99 ms3080 ms
TTFT99 ms3.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB1.0 GB
Memory %1%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

stablelm-2-zephyr-1.6b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
22/30

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

stablelm-2-zephyr-1.6b

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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