solar:10.7b

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 42

Hardware Fit

87 vs 60

Quality Score

52 vs 30

Hardware

solar:10.7b qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

solar:10.7b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec15.818.2

TTFT353 ms12.4 s

Load time0.4 s2.7 s

Memory usage6.6 GB9.5 GB

Memory %21%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

solar:10.7b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

solar:10.7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

8/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

4/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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