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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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Good

Oct 20, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
61 vs 78
Hardware Fit
69 vs 56
Quality Score
58 vs 87

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20BUS00700MacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-5300UApple M1 Pro
Cores410
RAM16 GB32 GB
GPUIntel(R) HD Graphics 5500Apple M1 Pro
OSMicrosoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045macOS 15.6.1
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec6.610.8
First chunk2277 ms8 ms
TTFT2.3 s2.6 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.9 GB21.0 GB
Memory %6%66%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong 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