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qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
55 vs 53
Hardware Fit
89 vs 89
Quality Score
40 vs 38

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-0.5b… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Pro
Cores414
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-0.5b… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec13.552.9
First chunk1292 ms4013 ms
TTFT1.3 s4.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.4 GB0.6 GB
Memory %2%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-inst…

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-inst…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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