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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/bartowski/ai9stars_G9v3-3B-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 2.99B · BF16

Good

Aug 26, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 64

Hardware Fit

100 vs 92

Quality Score

61 vs 52

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec52.329.9

First chunk285 ms108 ms

TTFT285 ms108 ms

Load timeN/A3.4 s

Memory usage1.6 GB8.9 GB

Memory %5%56%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

22/30

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

0/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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