llama2:13b

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

60 vs 50

Hardware Fit

84 vs 67

Quality Score

44 vs 38

Hardware

llama2:13b qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama2:13b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec13.518.7

TTFT415 ms12.1 s

Load time0.6 s1.2 s

Memory usage10.3 GB9.5 GB

Memory %32%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama2:13b

Speed

24/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama2:13b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

7/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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

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