qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:14b

qwen2 · 14.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

42 vs 82

Hardware Fit

60 vs 80

Quality Score

30 vs 84

Hardware

qwen3:8b qwen2.5:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b qwen2.5:14b

Tokens/sec18.211.2

TTFT12.4 s539 ms

Load time2.7 s1.0 s

Memory usage9.5 GB16.5 GB

Memory %30%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:14b

Speed

20/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

4/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

qwen2.5:14b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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