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qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama

OLLAMA GGUF
Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
57 vs 43
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
39 vs 19

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b tinyllama
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:0.5b tinyllama
Tokens/sec165.0133.4
First chunkN/A61 ms
TTFT81 ms61 ms
Load time0.5 s0.5 s
Memory usage1.7 GB0.2 GB
Memory %5%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

tinyllama

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

Quality

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

tinyllama

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
5/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest