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qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 1.5B · 8bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
69 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
56 vs 87

Hardware

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… gemma4:26b-nvfp4
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-1.5b-instr… gemma4:26b-nvfp4
Tokens/sec58.165.7
First chunk211 ms233 ms
TTFT211 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A5.0 s
Memory usage1.5 GB15.2 GB
Memory %5%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

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

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest