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qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5-0.8b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 0.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
53 vs 48
Hardware Fit
89 vs 61
Quality Score
38 vs 42

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5-0.8b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700LENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UIntel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores44
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5-0.8b
Tokens/sec13.26.2
First chunk1339 ms4461 ms
TTFT1.3 s4.5 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.4 GB0.7 GB
Memory %2%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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

qwen3.5-0.8b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.5-0.8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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