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stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:12b

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
53 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 83
Quality Score
22 vs 78

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b gemma3:12b
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 gemma3:12b
Tokens/sec93.812.7
TTFT94 ms560 ms
Load time0.4 s2.8 s
Memory usage1.1 GB11.0 GB
Memory %3%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

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

gemma3:12b

Speed
23/40
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

gemma3:12b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
19/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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