qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M
Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit
Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
61 vs 58
Hardware Fit
69 vs 68
Quality Score
58 vs 54
Hardware
qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB24 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec6.616.7
First chunk2277 ms23 ms
TTFT2.3 s14.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.9 GB7.8 GB
Memory %6%33%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Speed
23/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30
Quality
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Reasoning
9/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Reasoning
10/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
9/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate
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