qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

57 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 91

Quality Score

39 vs 55

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Tokens/sec165.033.2

First chunkN/A7 ms

TTFT81 ms311 ms

Load time0.5 sN/A

Memory usage1.7 GB0.5 GB

Memory %5%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed

41/50

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest