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qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
81 vs 65
Hardware Fit
95 vs 99
Quality Score
75 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineASUSMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-14600KFApple M4
Cores2010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUNVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPERApple M4
OSMicrosoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200macOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec108.328.5
First chunk169 ms393 ms
TTFT169 ms393 ms
Load time1.7 sN/A
Memory usage5.6 GB3.2 GB
Memory %18%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
25/30

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning
15/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
14/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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