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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 30, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3

Global Score
52 vs 49
Hardware Fit
100 vs 54
Quality Score
31 vs 47

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. Precision Tower 7910
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-2637 v3
Cores1016
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec257.521.6
First chunk99 ms1505 ms
TTFT99 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A53.8 s
Memory usage0.3 GB22.7 GB
Memory %1%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
24/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
5/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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$ metrillm

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