qwen2.5:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

82 vs 69

Hardware Fit

80 vs 93

Quality Score

84 vs 53

Hardware

qwen2.5:14b llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:14b llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec11.220.2

TTFT539 ms481 ms

Load time1.0 s3.4 s

Memory usage16.5 GB10.4 GB

Memory %52%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:14b

Speed

20/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

33/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:14b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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