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qwen2.5:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
83 vs 89
Hardware Fit
80 vs 95
Quality Score
84 vs 87

Hardware

qwen2.5:14b qwen/qwen3-8b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:14b qwen/qwen3-8b
Tokens/sec11.233.4
First chunkN/A257 ms
TTFT539 ms257 ms
Load time1.0 sN/A
Memory usage16.5 GB4.3 GB
Memory %52%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:14b

Speed
20/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed
45/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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