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qwen2.5:1.5b

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 48
Hardware Fit
100 vs 53
Quality Score
57 vs 45

Hardware

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3:4b
MachineMacBook Air—
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen2.5:1.5b qwen3:4b
Tokens/sec84.111.3
TTFT119 ms9.2 s
Load time0.5 s0.1 s
Memory usage2.6 GB7.2 GB
Memory %8%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

qwen3:4b

Speed
17/40
TTFT
6/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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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