qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

neural-chat:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

47 vs 67

Hardware Fit

53 vs 96

Quality Score

45 vs 55

Hardware

qwen3:4b neural-chat:7b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b neural-chat:7b

Tokens/sec11.322.5

TTFT9.2 s242 ms

Load time0.1 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.2 GB4.5 GB

Memory %23%14%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

neural-chat:7b

Speed

36/40

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

neural-chat:7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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