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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

ornith-1.5-35b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 21, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
52 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
31 vs 84

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… ornith-1.5-35b
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… ornith-1.5-35b
Tokens/sec257.580.4
First chunk99 ms24 ms
TTFT99 ms231 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB20.2 GB
Memory %1%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

ornith-1.5-35b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
18/30

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

ornith-1.5-35b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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