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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

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score
53 vs 83
Hardware Fit
89 vs 100
Quality Score
38 vs 76

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5:4b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M1 Max
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M1 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5:4b
Tokens/sec13.232.4
First chunk1339 ms306 ms
TTFT1.3 s306 ms
Load timeN/A2.7 s
Memory usage0.4 GB6.5 GB
Memory %2%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:4b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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