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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-v2:16b

OLLAMA GGUF

deepseek2 · 15.7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 69
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
57 vs 55

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… deepseek-v2:16b
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… deepseek-v2:16b
Tokens/sec58.456.6
First chunk234 msN/A
TTFT234 ms239 ms
Load timeN/A1.2 s
Memory usage1.5 GB17.7 GB
Memory %5%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

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

deepseek-v2:16b

Speed
40/50
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

deepseek-v2:16b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
10/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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