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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

glm-4.7-flash:bf16

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 29.9B · F16

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
52 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 73
Quality Score
31 vs 77

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… glm-4.7-flash:bf16
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… glm-4.7-flash:bf16
Tokens/sec257.525.8
First chunk99 ms605 ms
TTFT99 ms605 ms
Load timeN/A44.2 s
Memory usage0.3 GB57.0 GB
Memory %1%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

glm-4.7-flash:bf16

Speed
27/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

glm-4.7-flash:bf16

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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