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qwen2.5:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
85 vs 71
Hardware Fit
95 vs 87
Quality Score
79 vs 60

Hardware

qwen2.5:7b nous-hermes2:latest
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:7b nous-hermes2:latest
Tokens/sec22.215.9
TTFT285 ms345 ms
Load time0.8 s0.4 s
Memory usage7.6 GB6.6 GB
Memory %24%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:7b

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed
27/40
TTFT
30/30
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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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