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qwen3-0.6b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen3 · 0.6B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
40 vs 52
Hardware Fit
89 vs 100
Quality Score
19 vs 31

Hardware

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MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec14.4257.5
First chunk854 ms99 ms
TTFT854 ms99 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.5 GB0.3 GB
Memory %3%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3-0.6b

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3-0.6b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
4/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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