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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 15, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor

Global Score
69 vs 78
Hardware Fit
100 vs 86
Quality Score
56 vs 74

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook Air—
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 9 3900X 12-Core Processor
Cores1024
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec58.148.5
First chunk211 ms202 ms
TTFT211 ms4.3 s
Load timeN/A4.2 s
Memory usage1.5 GB5.5 GB
Memory %5%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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