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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 Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score
52 vs 35
Hardware Fit
100 vs 45
Quality Score
31 vs 30

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i9-14900K
Cores1032
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec257.516.7
First chunk99 ms781 ms
TTFT99 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A19.9 s
Memory usage0.3 GB21.8 GB
Memory %1%17%

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
15/50
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
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
3/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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