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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score
52 vs 63
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
31 vs 47

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… llama3.2:1b
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… llama3.2:1b
Tokens/sec257.540.2
First chunk99 ms1087 ms
TTFT99 ms1.1 s
Load timeN/A6.2 s
Memory usage0.3 GB1.4 GB
Memory %1%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

llama3.2:1b

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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