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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-1.0-9B-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 8.95B · unknown

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
52 vs 87
Hardware Fit
100 vs 95
Quality Score
31 vs 83

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… hf.co/ornith-ai/Or…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… hf.co/ornith-ai/Or…
Tokens/sec257.522.2
First chunk99 ms334 ms
TTFT99 ms334 ms
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage0.3 GB6.9 GB
Memory %1%43%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-…

Speed
48/50
TTFT
20/20
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

hf.co/ornith-ai/Ornith-…

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