mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
50 vs 69
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
29 vs 56
Hardware
mlx-community/stab… qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/stab… qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec93.658.1
First chunk166 ms211 ms
TTFT166 ms211 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.7 GB1.5 GB
Memory %2%5%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/stablelm-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
mlx-community/stablelm-…
Reasoning
7/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
3/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Reasoning
9/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
Run yours and compare
$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest