qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
phi4-mini:latest
OLLAMA GGUFphi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE
Global Score
52 vs 74
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
31 vs 63
Hardware
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… phi4-mini:latest
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… phi4-mini:latest
Tokens/sec257.518.4
First chunk99 ms1078 ms
TTFT99 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/A6.4 s
Memory usage0.3 GB2.9 GB
Memory %1%39%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
phi4-mini:latest
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30
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
phi4-mini:latest
Reasoning
13/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
Run yours and compare
$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest