qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-3-4b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

52 vs 76

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

31 vs 66

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… google/gemma-3-4b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… google/gemma-3-4b

Tokens/sec257.539.4

First chunk99 ms468 ms

TTFT99 ms468 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.3 GB2.8 GB

Memory %1%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

google/gemma-3-4b

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

google/gemma-3-4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

12/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest