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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

70 vs 29

Hardware Fit

100 vs 86

Quality Score

57 vs 4

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec58.417.9

First chunk234 ms1010 ms

TTFT234 ms6.4 s

Load timeN/A9.5 s

Memory usage1.5 GB3.0 GB

Memory %5%40%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

8/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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