qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

57 vs 77

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

39 vs 67

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec165.054.3

First chunkN/A277 ms

TTFT81 ms277 ms

Load time0.5 sN/A

Memory usage1.7 GB4.2 GB

Memory %5%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

50/50

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

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Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest