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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e2b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 5.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

May 24, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1355U

Global Score
52 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 71
Quality Score
31 vs 72

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma4:e2b
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. Inspiron 15 3530
CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1355U
Cores1012
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics]
OSmacOS 26.3cachyos rolling
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma4:e2b
Tokens/sec257.510.8
First chunk99 ms1408 ms
TTFT99 ms1.4 s
Load timeN/A6.0 s
Memory usage0.3 GB7.2 GB
Memory %1%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

gemma4:e2b

Speed
21/50
TTFT
20/20
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

gemma4:e2b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest