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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distill-IQ3_XXS:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · IQ3_XXS

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
73 vs 90
Hardware Fit
100 vs 98
Quality Score
61 vs 86

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7E51
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080, AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-D…
Tokens/sec52.361.8
First chunk285 ms325 ms
TTFT285 ms325 ms
Load timeN/A5.5 s
Memory usage1.6 GB12.2 GB
Memory %5%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

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

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

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

Qwen3.8-27B-Opus-Distil…

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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