qwen2.5:0.5b
OLLAMA GGUFqwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit
Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
Global Score
57 vs 53
Hardware Fit
100 vs 89
Quality Score
39 vs 38
Hardware
qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec165.052.9
First chunkN/A4013 ms
TTFT81 ms4.0 s
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage1.7 GB0.6 GB
Memory %5%1%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5:0.5b
Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
9/20
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
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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