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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/unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-GGUF:UD-IQ1_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · unknown

Good

Aug 21, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score
52 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 69
Quality Score
31 vs 67

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… hf.co/unsloth/Qwen…
MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro
CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395
Cores1032
RAM32 GB125 GB
GPUApple M4Radeon 8060S
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… hf.co/unsloth/Qwen…
Tokens/sec257.521.1
First chunk99 ms571 ms
TTFT99 ms571 ms
Load timeN/A4.9 s
Memory usage0.3 GB22.7 GB
Memory %1%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-2…

Speed
20/50
TTFT
19/20
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

hf.co/unsloth/Qwen3.8-2…

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