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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Not Rec.

Aug 24, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 71

Hardware Fit

100 vs 76

Quality Score

61 vs 69

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… gemma4:12b-mlx

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

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… gemma4:12b-mlx

Tokens/sec52.325.0

First chunk285 ms787 ms

TTFT285 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A4.0 s

Memory usage1.6 GB7.1 GB

Memory %5%45%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

26/30

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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