qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
gpt-oss:20b
OLLAMA GGUFgptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4
May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
Global Score
52 vs 94
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
31 vs 95
Hardware
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gpt-oss:20b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gpt-oss:20b
Tokens/sec257.554.5
First chunk99 ms318 ms
TTFT99 ms2.9 s
Load timeN/A4.0 s
Memory usage0.3 GB16.4 GB
Memory %1%34%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
gpt-oss:20b
Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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
gpt-oss:20b
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest