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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

73 vs 46

Hardware Fit

100 vs 61

Quality Score

61 vs 40

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec52.37.8

First chunk285 ms1625 ms

TTFT285 ms1.6 s

Load timeN/A21.8 s

Memory usage1.6 GB5.2 GB

Memory %5%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

26/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

15/30

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

1/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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