stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama2:13b

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

53 vs 60

Hardware Fit

100 vs 84

Quality Score

22 vs 44

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b llama2:13b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b llama2:13b

Tokens/sec93.813.5

TTFT94 ms415 ms

Load time0.4 s0.6 s

Memory usage1.1 GB10.3 GB

Memory %3%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

llama2:13b

Speed

24/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

llama2:13b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

7/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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