llama3.2:1b

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

63 vs 75

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

39 vs 59

Hardware

llama3.2:1b qwen3:0.6b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

llama3.2:1b qwen3:0.6b

Tokens/sec28.2143.9

TTFT199 ms1.4 s

Load time1.8 s0.9 s

Memory usage4.3 GB4.1 GB

Memory %13%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.2:1b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:0.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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