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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

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OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 70.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 27, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
52 vs 47
Hardware Fit
100 vs 51
Quality Score
31 vs 45

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

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Tokens/sec257.54.7
First chunk99 ms557 ms
TTFT99 ms557 ms
Load timeN/A52.6 s
Memory usage0.3 GB49.5 GB
Memory %1%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

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Speed
4/50
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

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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