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stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:12b

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 67
Hardware Fit
98 vs 79
Quality Score
15 vs 59

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b gemma3:12b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b gemma3:12b
Tokens/sec62.812.3
TTFT126 ms656 ms
Load time0.4 s5.5 s
Memory usage1.1 GB11.0 GB
Memory %3%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

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

gemma3:12b

Speed
19/40
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

gemma3:12b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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