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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
52 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
31 vs 69

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma3:4b
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… gemma3:4b
Tokens/sec257.515.0
First chunk99 ms2380 ms
TTFT99 ms2.4 s
Load timeN/A13.6 s
Memory usage0.3 GB2.6 GB
Memory %1%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

gemma3:4b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

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

gemma3:4b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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