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qwen2.5:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 69
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
57 vs 56

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec84.158.1
First chunkN/A211 ms
TTFT119 ms211 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage2.6 GB1.5 GB
Memory %8%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

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

qwen2.5-1.5b-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

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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