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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 54
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
57 vs 34

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b falcon3-1b-instruct
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b falcon3-1b-instruct
Tokens/sec84.1121.8
First chunkN/A176 ms
TTFT119 ms176 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB0.7 GB
Memory %8%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

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

falcon3-1b-instruct

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

Quality

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

falcon3-1b-instruct

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
7/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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