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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2-57b:57B

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2moe · 57.4B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 18, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H

Global Score
52 vs 67
Hardware Fit
100 vs 51
Quality Score
31 vs 74

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen2-57b:57B
MachineMacBook AirGMKtec NucBox EVO-T2S
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra X7 358H
Cores1016
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) Arc(TM) B390 GPU
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen2-57b:57B
Tokens/sec257.58.6
First chunk99 ms1573 ms
TTFT99 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A29.0 s
Memory usage0.3 GB32.8 GB
Memory %1%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

qwen2-57b:57B

Speed
10/50
TTFT
17/20
Memory
24/30

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

qwen2-57b:57B

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
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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