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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

qwen3.5:0.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
53 vs 18
Hardware Fit
89 vs 53
Quality Score
38 vs 3

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5:0.8b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700LENOVO 20L7CTO1WW
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UIntel Core™ i5-8350U
Cores48
RAM16 GB23 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045Fedora Linux 43
Archx64x64
Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… qwen3.5:0.8b
Tokens/sec13.29.4
First chunk1339 ms799 ms
TTFT1.3 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage0.4 GB1.9 GB
Memory %2%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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