qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-instruct-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
70 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
57 vs 61
Hardware
qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… mlx-community/gemm…
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… mlx-community/gemm…
Tokens/sec58.486.3
First chunk234 ms253 ms
TTFT234 ms253 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB1.1 GB
Memory %5%4%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
mlx-community/gemma-3-1…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
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
mlx-community/gemma-3-1…
Reasoning
7/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
Run yours and compare
$
npm install -g metrillm@latest$
metrillmRequires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running
Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest