Back to leaderboard

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3vlmoe · 30B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 24, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Global Score
52 vs 92
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
31 vs 90

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen/qwen3-vl-30b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 5 5500
Cores1012
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
OSmacOS 26.3Nobara Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen/qwen3-vl-30b
Tokens/sec257.524.8
First chunk99 ms11 ms
TTFT99 ms735 ms
Load timeN/A11.7 s
Memory usage0.3 GB0.6 GB
Memory %1%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Speed
45/50
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

qwen/qwen3-vl-30b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
View qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… details | View qwen/qwen3-vl-30b details

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest