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qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8-4B-Distill-GGUF:Q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.33B · unknown

Good

Aug 28, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
57 vs 52

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec58.426.5
First chunk234 ms447 ms
TTFT234 ms447 ms
Load timeN/A3.3 s
Memory usage1.5 GB4.8 GB
Memory %5%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

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

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

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

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
12/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
12/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

hf.co/empero-ai/Qwen3.8…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
1/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

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$ metrillm

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