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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 27.3B · Q4_K

Excellent

Aug 23, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12600K

Global Score
52 vs 90
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
31 vs 87

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_…
MachineMacBook Air—
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12600K
Cores1016
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4AlderLake-S GT1, AD106 [GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_…
Tokens/sec257.539.0
First chunk99 ms305 ms
TTFT99 ms305 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage0.3 GB12.5 GB
Memory %1%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
27/30

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

Qwen3.8-27B-UD-Q3_K_XL

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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