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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 35

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

57 vs 8

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… starcoder2:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec58.423.8

First chunk234 msN/A

TTFT234 ms251 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage1.5 GB6.3 GB

Memory %5%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/50

TTFT

30/20

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

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

2/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor

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