qwen2.5-coder:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

79 vs 41

Hardware Fit

95 vs 100

Quality Score

72 vs 15

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:7b smollm2:135m

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5-coder:7b smollm2:135m

Tokens/sec22.1241.0

TTFT285 ms39 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.6 GB0.6 GB

Memory %24%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:135m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

smollm2:135m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

2/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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