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qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Marginal

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
68 vs 59
Hardware Fit
100 vs 63
Quality Score
54 vs 58

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM15 GB64 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M5 Max
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec21.818.3
First chunk499 ms4 ms
TTFT499 ms530 ms
Load time4.4 sN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB38.5 GB
Memory %10%60%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

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

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak

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