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qwen2.5-coder:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 4bit

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
73 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
61 vs 55

Hardware

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MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMac mini
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4 Pro
Cores614
RAM7 GB64 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4 Pro
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec21.348.9
First chunk969 ms4208 ms
TTFT969 ms4.2 s
Load time6.6 sN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB1.6 GB
Memory %27%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
8/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:3b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
7/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest