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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 235.1B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Sep 7, 2026 · Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Global Score

73 vs 65

Hardware Fit

100 vs 29

Quality Score

61 vs 81

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge R820

CPUApple M4Intel Xeon® E5-4650 v2

Cores1080

RAM32 GB256 GB

GPUApple M4Microsoft Remote Display Adapter, NVIDIA Tesla P4, NVIDIA Tesla P4, Microsoft Basic Display Adapter

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 10.0.20348

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec52.32.4

First chunk285 ms5833 ms

TTFT285 ms5.8 s

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage1.6 GB135.1 GB

Memory %5%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

2/50

TTFT

3/20

Memory

24/30

Quality

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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

qwen3-235b-a22b-t48-c8k…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

14/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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