qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
53 vs 58
Hardware Fit
89 vs 68
Quality Score
38 vs 54
Hardware
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec13.216.7
First chunk1339 ms23 ms
TTFT1.3 s14.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.4 GB7.8 GB
Memory %2%33%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct
Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30
Quality
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
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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