mlx-community/gemma-3-1b-it-8bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
72 vs 69
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
61 vs 56
Hardware
mlx-community/gemm… qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
mlx-community/gemm… qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec86.358.1
First chunk253 ms211 ms
TTFT253 ms211 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.1 GB1.5 GB
Memory %4%5%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
mlx-community/gemma-3-1…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
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
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Reasoning
9/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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