orca-mini:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 2B · 8bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

47 vs 70

Hardware Fit

100 vs 93

Quality Score

24 vs 60

Hardware

orca-mini:3b qwen3.5-2b-mlx

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 qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Tokens/sec30.632.9

First chunkN/A3096 ms

TTFT126 ms3.1 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage2.6 GB2.5 GB

Memory %8%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:3b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

13/20

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

qwen3.5-2b-mlx

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest