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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:27b-q8_0

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q8_0

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor

Global Score
52 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
31 vs 89

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.8:27b-q8_0
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge XE8545
CPUApple M4AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Cores10128
RAM32 GB1007 GB
GPUApple M4GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], Integrated Matrox G200eW3 Graphics Controller, GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB]
OSmacOS 26.3Rocky Linux 8.10
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.8:27b-q8_0
Tokens/sec257.539.9
First chunk99 ms192 ms
TTFT99 ms192 ms
Load timeN/A19.0 s
Memory usage0.3 GB51.0 GB
Memory %1%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3.8:27b-q8_0

Speed
38/50
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

qwen3.8:27b-q8_0

Reasoning
18/20
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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