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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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Good

Mar 12, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
61 vs 77
Hardware Fit
69 vs 67
Quality Score
58 vs 81

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700Mac mini
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M4 Pro
Cores414
RAM16 GB64 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M4 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 15.7.4
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec6.620.3
First chunk2277 ms4216 ms
TTFT2.3 s4.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.9 GB5.6 GB
Memory %6%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
29/50
TTFT
8/20
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-mlx

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest