qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

50 vs 48

Hardware Fit

67 vs 98

Quality Score

38 vs 15

Hardware

qwen3:8b stablelm2:1.6b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b stablelm2:1.6b

Tokens/sec18.762.8

TTFT12.1 s126 ms

Load time1.2 s0.4 s

Memory usage9.5 GB1.1 GB

Memory %30%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

28/30

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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