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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder-1.3b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

70 vs 30

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

57 vs 14

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… deepseek-coder-1.3…

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b… deepseek-coder-1.3…

Tokens/sec58.47.1

First chunk234 ms3448 ms

TTFT234 ms3.4 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.5 GB1.3 GB

Memory %5%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-1.5b-inst…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-coder-1.3b-ins…

Speed

24/50

TTFT

15/20

Memory

27/30

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-coder-1.3b-ins…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

6/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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