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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

nemotron_h · 4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 24, 2026 · Intel Core™ i3-9100F

Global Score
52 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
31 vs 75

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… nvidia-nemotron-3-…
MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H310M S2 2.0
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i3-9100F
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Virtual Desktop Monitor, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
OSmacOS 26.3Майкрософт Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… nvidia-nemotron-3-…
Tokens/sec257.528.9
First chunk99 ms22 ms
TTFT99 ms580 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB3.8 GB
Memory %1%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

Speed
50/50
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

nvidia-nemotron-3-nano-4b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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