qwen3:0.6b

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:1.7b

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

77 vs 63

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

62 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3:0.6b smollm2:1.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:0.6b smollm2:1.7b

Tokens/sec145.250.3

TTFT1.4 s81 ms

Load time0.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage4.1 GB3.7 GB

Memory %13%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:0.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:1.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

Quality

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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