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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

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2.6B-GGUF:F16

OLLAMA GGUF

lfm2 · 2.7B · unknown

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
53 vs 61
Hardware Fit
89 vs 97
Quality Score
38 vs 46

Hardware

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MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M1 Pro
Cores410
RAM16 GB16 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M1 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.6.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec13.231.3
First chunk1339 ms131 ms
TTFT1.3 s131 ms
Load timeN/A4.2 s
Memory usage0.4 GB6.6 GB
Memory %2%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

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

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

hf.co/LiquidAI/LFM2.5-2…

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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