qwen2.5:3b

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:4b

qwen3 · 4.0B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 48

Hardware Fit

99 vs 53

Quality Score

53 vs 45

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b qwen3:4b

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

qwen2.5:3b qwen3:4b

Tokens/sec38.511.3

TTFT204 ms9.2 s

Load time0.5 s0.1 s

Memory usage4.0 GB7.2 GB

Memory %13%23%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

qwen3:4b

Speed

17/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor 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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