qwen2.5:0.5b

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

vicuna:13b

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

63 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 84

Quality Score

39 vs 48

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b vicuna:13b

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 vicuna:13b

Tokens/sec165.013.4

TTFT81 ms438 ms

Load time0.5 s0.6 s

Memory usage1.7 GB10.3 GB

Memory %5%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

vicuna:13b

Speed

24/40

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

vicuna:13b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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