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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
61 vs 47
Hardware Fit
69 vs 67
Quality Score
58 vs 38

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3:8b
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 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… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec6.618.7
First chunk2277 msN/A
TTFT2.3 s12.1 s
Load timeN/A1.2 s
Memory usage0.9 GB9.5 GB
Memory %6%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Speed
23/50
TTFT
19/20
Memory
27/30

qwen3:8b

Speed
31/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
5/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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