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

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 85

Hardware Fit

100 vs 80

Quality Score

61 vs 87

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… gemma4:26b-nvfp4

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… gemma4:26b-nvfp4

Tokens/sec52.365.7

First chunk285 ms233 ms

TTFT285 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A5.0 s

Memory usage1.6 GB15.2 GB

Memory %5%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

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

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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