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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2:24b

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2moe · 23.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
52 vs 88
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
31 vs 83

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… lfm2:24b
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… lfm2:24b
Tokens/sec257.585.3
First chunk99 ms123 ms
TTFT99 ms123 ms
Load timeN/A2.9 s
Memory usage0.3 GB14.3 GB
Memory %1%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

lfm2:24b

Speed
50/50
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

lfm2:24b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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