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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-0.8b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 0.8B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
69 vs 48
Hardware Fit
100 vs 61
Quality Score
56 vs 42

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.5-0.8b
MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U
Cores104
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3.5-0.8b
Tokens/sec58.16.2
First chunk211 ms4461 ms
TTFT211 ms4.5 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB0.7 GB
Memory %5%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

qwen3.5-0.8b

Speed
22/50
TTFT
12/20
Memory
27/30

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

qwen3.5-0.8b

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
12/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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