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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

GPT-20B:20b

OLLAMA GGUF

gptoss · 20.9B · MXFP4

Good

Aug 19, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H

Global Score
52 vs 79
Hardware Fit
100 vs 59
Quality Score
31 vs 88

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… GPT-20B:20b
MachineMacBook AirGMKtec NucBox EVO-T2S
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H
Cores1016
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) Arc(TM) B390 GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… GPT-20B:20b
Tokens/sec257.519.3
First chunk99 ms2004 ms
TTFT99 ms10.4 s
Load timeN/A10.4 s
Memory usage0.3 GB12.9 GB
Memory %1%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

GPT-20B:20b

Speed
26/50
TTFT
3/20
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

GPT-20B:20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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