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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
52 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
31 vs 79

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB47 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec257.5208.0
First chunk99 ms82 ms
TTFT99 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/A1.5 s
Memory usage0.3 GB9.6 GB
Memory %1%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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