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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
52 vs 18
Hardware Fit
100 vs 59
Quality Score
31 vs 0

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… lfm2-24b-a2b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… lfm2-24b-a2b
Tokens/sec257.56.6
First chunk99 ms1025 ms
TTFT99 ms1.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB0.0 GB
Memory %1%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

lfm2-24b-a2b

Speed
9/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

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

lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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