qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 48

Hardware Fit

53 vs 98

Quality Score

45 vs 15

Hardware

qwen3:4b stablelm2:1.6b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:4b stablelm2:1.6b

Tokens/sec11.362.8

TTFT9.2 s126 ms

Load time0.1 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.2 GB1.1 GB

Memory %23%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

28/30

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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