stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

48 vs 38

Hardware Fit

98 vs 64

Quality Score

15 vs 21

Hardware

stablelm2:1.6b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

stablelm2:1.6b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec62.821.7

TTFT126 ms11.9 s

Load time0.4 s3.5 s

Memory usage1.1 GB0.0 GB

Memory %3%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

stablelm2:1.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

28/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

3/30

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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