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qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder:6.7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
70 vs 63
Hardware Fit
87 vs 98
Quality Score
59 vs 39

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b deepseek-coder:6.7b
Machine—MacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b deepseek-coder:6.7b
Tokens/sec37.924.1
TTFT3.1 s251 ms
Load time1.2 s0.9 s
Memory usage4.9 GB12.6 GB
Memory %15%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
17/30
Memory
30/30

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Speed
38/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
6/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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