orca-mini:3b

llama · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder:6.7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 63

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

24 vs 39

Hardware

orca-mini:3b deepseek-coder:6.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

orca-mini:3b deepseek-coder:6.7b

Tokens/sec30.624.1

TTFT126 ms251 ms

Load time0.4 s0.9 s

Memory usage2.6 GB12.6 GB

Memory %8%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

orca-mini:3b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

3/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

6/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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