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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
69 vs 93
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
56 vs 90

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… nemotron-3-nano
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… nemotron-3-nano
Tokens/sec58.193.3
First chunk211 ms257 ms
TTFT211 ms257 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB0.1 GB
Memory %5%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

nemotron-3-nano

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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