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qwen3:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 52
Hardware Fit
92 vs 100
Quality Score
63 vs 31

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
MachineAZW GTR ProMacBook Air
CPUAMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395Apple M4
Cores3210
RAM125 GB32 GB
GPUAMD Radeon 8060SApple M4
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modelow-powerbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec120.7257.5
First chunk93 ms99 ms
TTFT1.5 s99 ms
Load time2.5 sN/A
Memory usage5.8 GB0.3 GB
Memory %5%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

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

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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