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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl:2b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 2.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
52 vs 62
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
31 vs 46

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3-vl:2b
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3-vl:2b
Tokens/sec257.5127.4
First chunk99 ms101 ms
TTFT99 ms630 ms
Load timeN/A5.9 s
Memory usage0.3 GB33.2 GB
Memory %1%27%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3-vl:2b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
19/20
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-vl:2b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
7/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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