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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it@iq3_xxs

LM-STUDIO GGUF

gemma4 · 26B · IQ3_XXS

Excellent

Jun 29, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H

Global Score
52 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 58
Quality Score
31 vs 94

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma-4-26b-a4b-it…
MachineMacBook AirDocker Container
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i9-11900H
Cores1016
RAM32 GB15 GB
GPUApple M4TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma-4-26b-a4b-it…
Tokens/sec257.510.3
First chunk99 ms8 ms
TTFT99 ms3.5 s
Load timeN/A10.9 s
Memory usage0.3 GB6.4 GB
Memory %1%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it@iq3_…

Speed
19/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
27/30

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

gemma-4-26b-a4b-it@iq3_…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
19/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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