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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 93

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

61 vs 90

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… nemotron-3-nano

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… nemotron-3-nano

Tokens/sec52.393.3

First chunk285 ms257 ms

TTFT285 ms257 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.6 GB0.1 GB

Memory %5%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

nemotron-3-nano

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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

View qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… details | View nemotron-3-nano details

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