qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-reasoning-distilled
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen3 · 4B · Q4_1
Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max
Global Score
69 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 96
Quality Score
56 vs 51
Hardware
qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
MachineMacBook AirMac Studio
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
Cores1012
RAM32 GB96 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-p…
Tokens/sec58.199.6
First chunk211 ms18 ms
TTFT211 ms1.6 s
Load timeN/A4.8 s
Memory usage1.5 GB0.3 GB
Memory %5%0%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
16/20
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
qwen3-4b-qwen3.6-plus-r…
Reasoning
8/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
9/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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