qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen/qwen3.6-27b
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit
Oct 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro
Global Score
69 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 56
Quality Score
56 vs 90
Hardware
qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen/qwen3.6-27b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen/qwen3.6-27b
Tokens/sec58.110.8
First chunk211 ms16 ms
TTFT211 ms2.6 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.5 GB21.0 GB
Memory %5%66%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen/qwen3.6-27b
Speed
23/50
TTFT
16/20
Memory
17/30
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/qwen3.6-27b
Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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