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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.1B · Q3_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
70 vs 33
Hardware Fit
100 vs 76
Quality Score
57 vs 14

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… tinyllama-1.1b-cha…
Tokens/sec58.49.9
First chunk234 ms3166 ms
TTFT234 ms3.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB0.5 GB
Memory %5%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

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

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

Speed
32/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
28/30

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

tinyllama-1.1b-chat-v1.0

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
2/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest