qwen2.5:3b

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

solar:10.7b

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 87

Quality Score

67 vs 52

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b solar:10.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b solar:10.7b

Tokens/sec47.215.8

TTFT168 ms353 ms

Load time0.5 s0.4 s

Memory usage4.0 GB6.6 GB

Memory %13%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

solar:10.7b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

solar:10.7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

8/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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