smollm2:360m

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma2:9b

gemma2 · 9.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 78

Hardware Fit

100 vs 89

Quality Score

32 vs 71

Hardware

smollm2:360m gemma2:9b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

smollm2:360m gemma2:9b

Tokens/sec117.917.5

TTFT43 ms347 ms

Load time0.4 s0.8 s

Memory usage1.2 GB8.2 GB

Memory %4%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:360m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

gemma2:9b

Speed

29/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

smollm2:360m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

gemma2:9b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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