mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 7B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

57 vs 79

Hardware Fit

100 vs 92

Quality Score

39 vs 73

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec126.422.5

First chunk139 ms529 ms

TTFT139 ms529 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.3 GB4.0 GB

Memory %1%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Speed

44/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

Quality

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Reasoning

5/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

10/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

qwen2.5-coder-7b-instru…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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