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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

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score
53 vs 81
Hardware Fit
89 vs 100
Quality Score
38 vs 73

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… llama3.1:8b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UIntel Core™ i5-14400F
Cores416
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec13.270.2
First chunk1339 ms58 ms
TTFT1.3 s58 ms
Load timeN/A4.1 s
Memory usage0.4 GB4.9 GB
Memory %2%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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

llama3.1:8b

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest