qwen2.5:1.5b

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 38

Hardware Fit

100 vs 64

Quality Score

57 vs 21

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec84.121.7

TTFT119 ms11.9 s

Load time0.5 s3.5 s

Memory usage2.6 GB0.0 GB

Memory %8%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

3/30

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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