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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncensored-hauhaucs-aggressive

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
52 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
31 vs 62

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec257.559.8
First chunk99 ms12 ms
TTFT99 ms2.4 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB29.7 GB
Memory %1%31%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncenso…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
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

qwen3.5-35b-a3b-uncenso…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
6/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest