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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:31b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 31.3B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
52 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 40
Quality Score
31 vs 77

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma4:31b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… gemma4:31b
Tokens/sec257.510.7
First chunk99 ms983 ms
TTFT99 ms20.3 s
Load timeN/A8.8 s
Memory usage0.3 GB21.4 GB
Memory %1%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

gemma4:31b

Speed
10/50
TTFT
0/20
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

gemma4:31b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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