smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 50

Hardware Fit

100 vs 67

Quality Score

14 vs 38

Hardware

smollm2:135m qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:135m qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec245.018.7

TTFT31 ms12.1 s

Load time0.4 s1.2 s

Memory usage0.6 GB9.5 GB

Memory %2%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:135m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

smollm2:135m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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