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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

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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
55 vs 66
Hardware Fit
89 vs 100
Quality Score
40 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec13.585.4
First chunk1292 ms115 ms
TTFT1.3 s115 ms
Load timeN/A0.5 s
Memory usage0.4 GB2.6 GB
Memory %2%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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

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

Quality

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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

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Reasoning
14/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
8/20
Structured
6/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate
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