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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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2 · 1.2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 68
Hardware Fit
89 vs 100
Quality Score
38 vs 54

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 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… lfm2.5-1.2b-instru…
Tokens/sec13.277.3
First chunk1339 ms177 ms
TTFT1.3 s177 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.4 GB1.2 GB
Memory %2%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

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

lfm2.5-1.2b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
12/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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