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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
52 vs 59
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
31 vs 42

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma3:1b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super
CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE
Cores106
RAM32 GB7 GB
GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma3:1b
Tokens/sec257.534.0
First chunk99 ms1876 ms
TTFT99 ms1.9 s
Load timeN/A1.7 s
Memory usage0.3 GB0.8 GB
Memory %1%11%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

gemma3:1b

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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
7/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest