qwen2.5-coder:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

79 vs 68

Hardware Fit

95 vs 87

Quality Score

72 vs 60

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:7b nous-hermes2:latest

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 nous-hermes2:latest

Tokens/sec22.115.9

TTFT285 ms345 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.6 GB6.6 GB

Memory %24%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/40

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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