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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-9B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 8.95B · unknown

Good

Aug 23, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
52 vs 62
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
31 vs 47

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… hf.co/ornith-ai/Or…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… hf.co/ornith-ai/Or…
Tokens/sec257.522.3
First chunk99 ms324 ms
TTFT99 ms324 ms
Load timeN/A3.2 s
Memory usage0.3 GB6.9 GB
Memory %1%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-…

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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