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stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:1.5b

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
48 vs 68
Hardware Fit
98 vs 99
Quality Score
15 vs 47

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b qwen2.5:1.5b
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 qwen2.5:1.5b
Tokens/sec62.881.5
TTFT126 ms119 ms
Load time0.4 s0.5 s
Memory usage1.1 GB2.6 GB
Memory %3%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed
40/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
29/30

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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