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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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
53 vs 80
Hardware Fit
89 vs 77
Quality Score
38 vs 81

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.6:35b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M5 Max
Cores418
RAM16 GB48 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M5 Max
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.6:35b-mlx
Tokens/sec13.2129.8
First chunk1339 ms77 ms
TTFT1.3 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A1.8 s
Memory usage0.4 GB19.7 GB
Memory %2%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
11/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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