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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score
69 vs 84
Hardware Fit
100 vs 97
Quality Score
56 vs 79

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3:8b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K
Cores1024
RAM32 GB47 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… qwen3:8b
Tokens/sec58.1208.0
First chunk211 ms82 ms
TTFT211 ms1.3 s
Load timeN/A1.5 s
Memory usage1.5 GB9.6 GB
Memory %5%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
18/20
Memory
29/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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