qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

55 vs 89

Hardware Fit

89 vs 95

Quality Score

40 vs 87

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-0.5b… qwen/qwen3-8b

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

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Tokens/sec13.533.4

First chunk1292 ms257 ms

TTFT1.3 s257 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.4 GB4.3 GB

Memory %2%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed

45/50

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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