orca-mini:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:360m

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

61 vs 58

Hardware Fit

98 vs 99

Quality Score

37 vs 30

Hardware

orca-mini:7b smollm2:360m

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

orca-mini:7b smollm2:360m

Tokens/sec24.4115.1

TTFT219 ms39 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage5.8 GB1.2 GB

Memory %18%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:360m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

Quality

orca-mini:7b

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

smollm2:360m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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