qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama

OLLAMA GGUF

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 43

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

61 vs 19

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/sec52.3133.4

First chunk285 ms61 ms

TTFT285 ms61 ms

Load timeN/A0.5 s

Memory usage1.6 GB0.2 GB

Memory %5%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

tinyllama

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

tinyllama

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

5/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

3/10

Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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