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qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
57 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
39 vs 55

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b qwen3.5-2b-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 qwen3.5-2b-mlx
Tokens/sec165.048.9
First chunkN/A4208 ms
TTFT81 ms4.2 s
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage1.7 GB1.6 GB
Memory %5%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest