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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 64
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
75 vs 49

Hardware

qwen3:8b smollm2:1.7b
MachineASUSMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b smollm2:1.7b
Tokens/sec109.151.8
First chunk190 msN/A
TTFT190 ms84 ms
Load time4.3 s0.4 s
Memory usage5.6 GB3.7 GB
Memory %18%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

smollm2:1.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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