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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
69 vs 45
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
56 vs 22

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen2.5-math-1.5b-…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen2.5-math-1.5b-…
Tokens/sec58.191.7
First chunk211 ms205 ms
TTFT211 ms205 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB0.8 GB
Memory %5%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instr…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

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

qwen2.5-math-1.5b-instr…

Reasoning
2/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
3/20
Structured
1/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest