qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M1 Max

Global Score

61 vs 53

Hardware Fit

69 vs 72

Quality Score

58 vs 45

Hardware

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MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro

CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M1 Max

Cores410

RAM16 GB32 GB

GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M1 Max

OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 26.3

Archx64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec6.618.6

First chunk2277 ms403 ms

TTFT2.3 s10.2 s

Load timeN/A4.3 s

Memory usage0.9 GB9.1 GB

Memory %6%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Speed

23/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

27/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

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

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

6/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

8/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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