qwen3.5:0.8b

qwen35 · 873.44M · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

orca-mini:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

65 vs 55

Hardware Fit

99 vs 98

Quality Score

51 vs 37

Hardware

qwen3.5:0.8b orca-mini:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:0.8b orca-mini:7b

Tokens/sec48.224.4

TTFT195 ms219 ms

Load time1.0 s0.4 s

Memory usage2.5 GB5.8 GB

Memory %8%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:0.8b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

orca-mini:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:0.8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

orca-mini:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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