smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

41 vs 47

Hardware Fit

100 vs 53

Quality Score

15 vs 45

Hardware

smollm2:135m qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

smollm2:135m qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec241.011.3

TTFT39 ms9.2 s

Load time0.4 s0.1 s

Memory usage0.6 GB7.2 GB

Memory %2%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:135m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

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

qwen3:4b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

6/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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