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qwen2.5:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 70
Hardware Fit
95 vs 87
Quality Score
79 vs 59

Hardware

qwen2.5:7b qwen3:1.7b
MachineMacBook Air—
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:7b qwen3:1.7b
Tokens/sec22.237.9
TTFT285 ms3.1 s
Load time0.8 s1.2 s
Memory usage7.6 GB4.9 GB
Memory %24%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:7b

Speed
35/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

qwen3:1.7b

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

Quality

qwen2.5:7b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
14/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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
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