qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit
Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max
Global Score
69 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 52
Quality Score
56 vs 92
Hardware
qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec58.116.1
First chunk211 ms14 ms
TTFT211 ms5.8 s
Load timeN/A8.5 s
Memory usage1.5 GB0.0 GB
Memory %5%0%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Speed
17/50
TTFT
5/20
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
qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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