orca-mini:3b

llama · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:0.8b

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

54 vs 70

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

24 vs 51

Hardware

orca-mini:3b qwen3.5:0.8b

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 qwen3.5:0.8b

Tokens/sec30.648.2

TTFT126 ms195 ms

Load time0.4 s1.0 s

Memory usage2.6 GB2.5 GB

Memory %8%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

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

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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