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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

richardyoung/qwythos-9b-abliterated:Q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.0B · Q8_0

Good

Jun 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
52 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
31 vs 52

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… richardyoung/qwyth…
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1012
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… richardyoung/qwyth…
Tokens/sec257.525.3
First chunk99 ms397 ms
TTFT99 ms397 ms
Load timeN/A6.3 s
Memory usage0.3 GB8.3 GB
Memory %1%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

richardyoung/qwythos-9b…

Speed
47/50
TTFT
20/20
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

richardyoung/qwythos-9b…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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