qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

text-embedding-nomic-embed-text-v1.5

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nomic-bert · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

52 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 94

Quality Score

31 vs 44

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec257.545.3

First chunk99 ms2440 ms

TTFT99 ms2.4 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.3 GB0.0 GB

Memory %1%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Speed

40/50

TTFT

25/20

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

text-embedding-nomic-em…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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