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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
69 vs 68
Hardware Fit
100 vs 87
Quality Score
56 vs 60

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec58.115.9
First chunk211 msN/A
TTFT211 ms345 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage1.5 GB6.6 GB
Memory %5%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed
27/50
TTFT
30/20
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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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