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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

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OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score

73 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 63

Quality Score

61 vs 67

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

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Tokens/sec52.335.6

First chunk285 ms224 ms

TTFT285 ms7.5 s

Load timeN/A7.7 s

Memory usage1.6 GB4.6 GB

Memory %5%29%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

7/20

Memory

6/30

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

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Reasoning

16/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

10/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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