qwen2.5-coder:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 48

Hardware Fit

94 vs 98

Quality Score

54 vs 15

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder:7b 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

qwen2.5-coder:7b stablelm2:1.6b

Tokens/sec21.562.8

TTFT290 ms126 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.6 GB1.1 GB

Memory %24%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Speed

34/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

28/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder:7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

stablelm2:1.6b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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