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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Oct 3, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

70 vs 84

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

57 vs 92

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen3.8:27b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen3.8:27b

Tokens/sec58.429.4

First chunk234 ms306 ms

TTFT234 ms4.8 s

Load timeN/A5.3 s

Memory usage1.5 GB16.2 GB

Memory %5%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8:27b

Speed

31/50

TTFT

5/20

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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

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