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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder-1.3b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
52 vs 30
Hardware Fit
100 vs 66
Quality Score
31 vs 14

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… deepseek-coder-1.3…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… deepseek-coder-1.3…
Tokens/sec257.57.1
First chunk99 ms3448 ms
TTFT99 ms3.4 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.3 GB1.3 GB
Memory %1%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

deepseek-coder-1.3b-ins…

Speed
24/50
TTFT
15/20
Memory
27/30

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

deepseek-coder-1.3b-ins…

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
3/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
6/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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