qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

vicuna:13b

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 62

Hardware Fit

53 vs 84

Quality Score

45 vs 48

Hardware

qwen3:4b vicuna:13b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b vicuna:13b

Tokens/sec11.313.4

TTFT9.2 s438 ms

Load time0.1 s0.6 s

Memory usage7.2 GB10.3 GB

Memory %23%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

vicuna:13b

Speed

24/40

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

vicuna:13b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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