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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
52 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 79
Quality Score
31 vs 81

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
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… qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0
Tokens/sec257.555.5
First chunk99 ms528 ms
TTFT99 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A32.6 s
Memory usage0.3 GB41.0 GB
Memory %1%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3.6:35b-a3b-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
10/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest