llama3:latest

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

74 vs 49

Hardware Fit

95 vs 100

Quality Score

60 vs 15

Hardware

llama3:latest smollm2:135m

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3:latest smollm2:135m

Tokens/sec22.3241.0

TTFT295 ms39 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage5.6 GB0.6 GB

Memory %18%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3:latest

Speed

35/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:135m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama3:latest

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

smollm2:135m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

2/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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