qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:1.5b

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

50 vs 74

Hardware Fit

67 vs 100

Quality Score

38 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen2.5:1.5b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen2.5:1.5b

Tokens/sec18.784.1

TTFT12.1 s119 ms

Load time1.2 s0.5 s

Memory usage9.5 GB2.6 GB

Memory %30%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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