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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

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
72 vs 57
Hardware Fit
92 vs 100
Quality Score
63 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen2.5:0.5b
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
Tokens/sec120.7165.0
First chunk93 msN/A
TTFT1.5 s81 ms
Load time2.5 s0.5 s
Memory usage5.8 GB1.7 GB
Memory %5%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

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

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
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