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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-27b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 26

Hardware Fit

100 vs 63

Quality Score

61 vs 10

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… qwen3.5-27b

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… qwen3.5-27b

Tokens/sec52.39.5

First chunk285 ms1099 ms

TTFT285 ms1.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.6 GB16.3 GB

Memory %5%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-27b

Speed

13/50

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

qwen3.5-27b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

2/20

Structured

0/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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