qwen2.5:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:1b

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

82 vs 61

Hardware Fit

80 vs 90

Quality Score

84 vs 42

Hardware

qwen2.5:14b gemma3:1b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen2.5:14b gemma3:1b

Tokens/sec11.287.9

TTFT539 ms2.3 s

Load time1.0 s0.2 s

Memory usage16.5 GB1.3 GB

Memory %52%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:14b

Speed

20/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

gemma3:1b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

20/30

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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

12/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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