stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

nous-hermes2:latest

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 71

Hardware Fit

98 vs 87

Quality Score

15 vs 60

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b nous-hermes2:latest

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 nous-hermes2:latest

Tokens/sec62.815.9

TTFT126 ms345 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage1.1 GB6.6 GB

Memory %3%21%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

28/30

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/40

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

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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