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qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3vl · 4.4B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score
57 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
39 vs 78

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3-vl:4b-instruct
Tokens/sec165.091.2
First chunkN/A150 ms
TTFT81 ms150 ms
Load time0.5 s5.3 s
Memory usage1.7 GB42.5 GB
Memory %5%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

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

qwen3-vl:4b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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-vl:4b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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