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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 47

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

61 vs 45

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec52.311.3

First chunk285 msN/A

TTFT285 ms9.2 s

Load timeN/A0.1 s

Memory usage1.6 GB7.2 GB

Memory %5%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/50

TTFT

6/20

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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