qwen2.5:3b

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:latest

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

80 vs 77

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

67 vs 61

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b llama3.2:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac Mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen2.5:3b llama3.2:latest

Tokens/sec47.298.9

TTFT168 ms125 ms

Load time0.5 s2.3 s

Memory usage4.0 GB22.1 GB

Memory %13%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:latest

Speed

40/40

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

llama3.2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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