vicuna:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:1.5b

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

65 vs 74

Hardware Fit

97 vs 100

Quality Score

43 vs 57

Hardware

vicuna:7b qwen2.5:1.5b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

vicuna:7b qwen2.5:1.5b

Tokens/sec23.484.1

TTFT242 ms119 ms

Load time0.4 s0.5 s

Memory usage5.8 GB2.6 GB

Memory %18%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

vicuna:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:1.5b

Speed

40/40

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

qwen2.5:1.5b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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