qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 42

Hardware Fit

87 vs 60

Quality Score

59 vs 30

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b qwen3:8b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen3:1.7b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec37.918.2

TTFT3.1 s12.4 s

Load time1.2 s2.7 s

Memory usage4.9 GB9.5 GB

Memory %15%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

17/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

3/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

4/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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