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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-next:80b-a3b-instruct-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3next · 79.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score
52 vs 74
Hardware Fit
100 vs 42
Quality Score
31 vs 87

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge R820
CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2
Cores1080
RAM32 GB256 GB
GPUApple M4Microsoft Basic Display Adapter
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec257.53.9
First chunk99 ms2089 ms
TTFT99 ms2.1 s
Load timeN/A73.3 s
Memory usage0.3 GB46.9 GB
Memory %1%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

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Speed
3/50
TTFT
9/20
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-next:80b-a3b-inst…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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