qwen2.5:0.5b

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:360m

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

63 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

39 vs 32

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b smollm2:360m

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:0.5b smollm2:360m

Tokens/sec165.0117.9

TTFT81 ms43 ms

Load time0.5 s0.4 s

Memory usage1.7 GB1.2 GB

Memory %5%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:360m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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

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