qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:3b

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 78

Hardware Fit

53 vs 100

Quality Score

45 vs 63

Hardware

qwen3:4b llama3.2:3b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b llama3.2:3b

Tokens/sec11.344.1

TTFT9.2 s178 ms

Load time0.1 s0.8 s

Memory usage7.2 GB7.0 GB

Memory %23%22%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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