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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

73 vs 65

Hardware Fit

100 vs 73

Quality Score

61 vs 62

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… qwen3.5:4b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec52.345.7

First chunk285 ms180 ms

TTFT285 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A5.3 s

Memory usage1.6 GB16.2 GB

Memory %5%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

0/20

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

8/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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