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qwen2.5-coder:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Nov 13, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-4590T

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
41 vs 63

Hardware

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MachineFUJITSU ESPRIMO Q920MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-4590TApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 4600, Microsoft Remote Display AdapterApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.723.1
First chunk290 ms3279 ms
TTFT290 ms3.3 s
Load time1.4 sN/A
Memory usage0.9 GB2.9 GB
Memory %6%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:0.5b

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed
45/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:0.5b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
6/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest