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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

lmstudio-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

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llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
52 vs 78
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
31 vs 69

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec257.546.0
First chunk99 ms245 ms
TTFT99 ms245 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB4.6 GB
Memory %1%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

lmstudio-community/meta…

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

lmstudio-community/meta…

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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