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qwen2.5-7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Excellent

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
82 vs 84
Hardware Fit
92 vs 94
Quality Score
78 vs 80

Hardware

qwen2.5-7b-instruct qwen3.5:9b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-7b-instruct qwen3.5:9b-mlx
Tokens/sec22.025.0
First chunk477 ms357 ms
TTFT477 ms357 ms
Load timeN/A3.8 s
Memory usage4.0 GB8.4 GB
Memory %13%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Speed
43/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

qwen2.5-7b-instruct

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5:9b-mlx

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