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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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score
53 vs 37
Hardware Fit
89 vs 73
Quality Score
38 vs 22

Hardware

qwen2.5-0.5b-instr… deepseek-r1:1.5b
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… deepseek-r1:1.5b
Tokens/sec13.218.4
First chunk1339 ms593 ms
TTFT1.3 s30.0 s
Load timeN/A3.8 s
Memory usage0.4 GB1.0 GB
Memory %2%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed
43/50
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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
5/20
Structured
3/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
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