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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

granite3.1-moe:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granitemoe · 3.3B · Q4_K_M

Good

May 24, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1355U

Global Score
52 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
31 vs 52

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… granite3.1-moe:3b
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. Inspiron 15 3530
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1355U
Cores1012
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3cachyos rolling
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… granite3.1-moe:3b
Tokens/sec257.527.2
First chunk99 ms527 ms
TTFT99 ms527 ms
Load timeN/A1.9 s
Memory usage0.3 GB2.9 GB
Memory %1%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

granite3.1-moe:3b

Speed
49/50
TTFT
20/20
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

granite3.1-moe:3b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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$ metrillm

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