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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
69 vs 83
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
56 vs 84

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen2.5:14b
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… qwen2.5:14b
Tokens/sec58.111.2
First chunk211 msN/A
TTFT211 ms539 ms
Load timeN/A1.0 s
Memory usage1.5 GB16.5 GB
Memory %5%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

qwen2.5:14b

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

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

qwen2.5:14b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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