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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:30b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
70 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 93
Quality Score
57 vs 80

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen3:30b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen3:30b-a3b
Tokens/sec58.492.7
First chunk234 ms286 ms
TTFT234 ms1.5 s
Load timeN/A15.3 s
Memory usage1.5 GB20.3 GB
Memory %5%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

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

qwen3:30b-a3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
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

qwen3:30b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
13/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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