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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
52 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
31 vs 61

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… mlx-community/gemm…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… mlx-community/gemm…
Tokens/sec257.586.3
First chunk99 ms253 ms
TTFT99 ms253 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB1.1 GB
Memory %1%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

mlx-community/gemma-3-1…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest