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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score
52 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 60
Quality Score
31 vs 88

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3-coder:30b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K
Cores1020
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Parsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3-coder:30b
Tokens/sec257.514.7
First chunk99 ms796 ms
TTFT99 ms796 ms
Load timeN/A0.2 s
Memory usage0.3 GB17.9 GB
Memory %1%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed
14/50
TTFT
19/20
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-coder:30b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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