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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
69 vs 90
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
56 vs 86

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec58.186.6
First chunk211 ms13 ms
TTFT211 ms143 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB23.9 GB
Memory %5%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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