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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/stablelm-2-zephyr-1_6b-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 50

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

61 vs 29

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec52.393.6

First chunk285 ms166 ms

TTFT285 ms166 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.6 GB0.7 GB

Memory %5%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

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Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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

mlx-community/stablelm-…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

3/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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