qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
gemma3:4b
OLLAMA GGUFgemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M
Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
52 vs 46
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
31 vs 26
Hardware
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma3:4b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma3:4b
Tokens/sec257.514.9
First chunk99 ms2204 ms
TTFT99 ms2.2 s
Load timeN/A2.0 s
Memory usage0.3 GB2.6 GB
Memory %1%35%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
gemma3:4b
Speed
45/50
TTFT
19/20
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
gemma3:4b
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Poor
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$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest