falcon:7b

falcon · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-coder:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

47 vs 81

Hardware Fit

98 vs 95

Quality Score

13 vs 72

Hardware

falcon:7b qwen2.5-coder:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

falcon:7b qwen2.5-coder:7b

Tokens/sec24.322.1

TTFT256 ms285 ms

Load time0.4 s0.8 s

Memory usage4.0 GB7.6 GB

Memory %12%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

falcon:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

falcon:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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