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 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro
Global Score
53 vs 77
Hardware Fit
89 vs 67
Quality Score
38 vs 81
Hardware
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Pro
Cores414
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec13.220.3
First chunk1339 ms4216 ms
TTFT1.3 s4.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.4 GB5.6 GB
Memory %2%9%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct
Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30
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
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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