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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/bartowski/ai9stars_G9v3-3B-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 2.99B · BF16

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
52 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 92
Quality Score
31 vs 69

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec257.529.9
First chunk99 ms105 ms
TTFT99 ms105 ms
Load timeN/A3.4 s
Memory usage0.3 GB8.9 GB
Memory %1%56%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
22/30

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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