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lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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qwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
33 vs 53
Hardware Fit
74 vs 89
Quality Score
15 vs 38

Hardware

lmstudio-community… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec11.513.2
First chunk670 ms1339 ms
TTFT670 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB0.4 GB
Memory %9%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

Quality

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest