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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

73 vs 22

Hardware Fit

100 vs 69

Quality Score

61 vs 2

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… deepseek-r1:latest

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec52.39.6

First chunk285 ms1300 ms

TTFT285 ms1.3 s

Load timeN/A19.9 s

Memory usage1.6 GB4.8 GB

Memory %5%65%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:latest

Speed

31/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

18/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

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

deepseek-r1:latest

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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