aya-expanse:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

command-r · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

72 vs 48

Hardware Fit

89 vs 77

Quality Score

65 vs 35

Hardware

aya-expanse:8b qwen3.5:4b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

aya-expanse:8b qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec19.718.9

First chunk350 ms316 ms

TTFT350 ms13.0 s

Load time0.9 s3.7 s

Memory usage6.2 GB5.9 GB

Memory %20%37%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

aya-expanse:8b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

43/50

TTFT

4/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

aya-expanse:8b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

3/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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