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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/gemma-3-4b-it-qat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
73 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
61 vs 71

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… mlx-community/gemm…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… mlx-community/gemm…
Tokens/sec52.343.2
First chunk285 ms428 ms
TTFT285 ms428 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage1.6 GB1.3 GB
Memory %5%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-4…

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

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

mlx-community/gemma-3-4…

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest