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qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
57 vs 61
Hardware Fit
100 vs 85
Quality Score
39 vs 51

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3:0.6b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores108
RAM32 GB23 GB
GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3:0.6b
Tokens/sec165.027.0
First chunkN/A597 ms
TTFT81 ms8.7 s
Load time0.5 s1.8 s
Memory usage1.7 GB0.9 GB
Memory %5%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

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

qwen3:0.6b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
5/20
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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
12/15
Math
9/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest