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stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistral-nemo:12b

llama · 12.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
45 vs 71
Hardware Fit
100 vs 86
Quality Score
22 vs 65

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b mistral-nemo:12b
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 mistral-nemo:12b
Tokens/sec93.814.6
TTFT94 ms371 ms
Load time0.4 s1.0 s
Memory usage1.1 GB13.3 GB
Memory %3%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

mistral-nemo:12b

Speed
26/40
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

mistral-nemo:12b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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