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stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 77
Hardware Fit
98 vs 93
Quality Score
15 vs 67

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b llama3.1:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b llama3.1:8b
Tokens/sec62.820.3
TTFT126 ms315 ms
Load time0.4 s1.1 s
Memory usage1.1 GB10.4 GB
Memory %3%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
28/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed
33/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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