orca-mini:7b

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

61 vs 42

Hardware Fit

98 vs 60

Quality Score

37 vs 30

Hardware

orca-mini: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

orca-mini:7b qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec24.418.2

TTFT219 ms12.4 s

Load time0.4 s2.7 s

Memory usage5.8 GB9.5 GB

Memory %18%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

orca-mini:7b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

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

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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