llama-3.2-3b-instruct

llama · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 45

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

60 vs 22

Hardware

llama-3.2-3b-instr… stablelm2:1.6b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama-3.2-3b-instr… stablelm2:1.6b

Tokens/sec48.293.8

TTFT265 ms94 ms

Load time0.0 s0.4 s

Memory usage0.0 GB1.1 GB

Memory %0%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama-3.2-3b-instruct

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama-3.2-3b-instruct

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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