vicuna:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma2:9b

gemma2 · 9.2B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

65 vs 78

Hardware Fit

97 vs 89

Quality Score

43 vs 71

Hardware

vicuna:7b gemma2:9b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

vicuna:7b gemma2:9b

Tokens/sec23.417.5

TTFT242 ms347 ms

Load time0.4 s0.8 s

Memory usage5.8 GB8.2 GB

Memory %18%26%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

vicuna:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

gemma2:9b

Speed

29/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

vicuna:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

gemma2:9b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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