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LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 14B · 5bit

Not Rec.

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-0.8b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 0.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
36 vs 48
Hardware Fit
53 vs 61
Quality Score
28 vs 42

Hardware

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MachineMac miniLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM24 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec10.36.2
First chunk27 ms4461 ms
TTFT20.7 s4.5 s
Load time15.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.0 GB0.7 GB
Memory %4%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed
23/50
TTFT
0/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
27/30

Quality

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Reasoning
3/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
3/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-0.8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

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