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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 34.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
52 vs 86
Hardware Fit
100 vs 87
Quality Score
31 vs 86

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q4…
MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q4…
Tokens/sec257.592.9
First chunk99 ms362 ms
TTFT99 ms362 ms
Load timeN/A12.3 s
Memory usage0.3 GB20.7 GB
Memory %1%67%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M:…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
17/30

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

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-Q4_K_M:…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest