qwen3.5:4b

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

80 vs 75

Hardware Fit

88 vs 93

Quality Score

76 vs 67

Hardware

qwen3.5:4b llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5:4b llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec16.620.3

TTFT369 ms315 ms

Load time1.5 s1.1 s

Memory usage6.5 GB10.4 GB

Memory %20%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

28/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

33/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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