smollm2:1.7b

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

63 vs 42

Hardware Fit

99 vs 60

Quality Score

39 vs 30

Hardware

smollm2:1.7b qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

smollm2:1.7b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec50.318.2

TTFT81 ms12.4 s

Load time0.4 s2.7 s

Memory usage3.7 GB9.5 GB

Memory %12%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

smollm2:1.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

4/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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