stablelm2:1.6b

stablelm · 2B · Q4_0

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 2, 2026

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Global Score

53 /100

Marginal

Hardware Fit

100/100

Quality

22/100

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Hardware

Machine: MacBook Air
CPU: Apple M4
Cores: 10 total (4 perf + 6 eff)
Frequency: 2.4 GHz
RAM: 32 GB LPDDR5
GPU: Apple M4
OS: macOS 26.3
Arch: arm64
Power Mode: balanced

Performance

Tokens/sec Tokens generated per second — higher is better: 93.8
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±1.6
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 94 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 0.4 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 1.1 GB (3%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1269

Score breakdown

Speed

40/40

Time to first token

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction following

6/20

Structured output

1/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.0
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.4
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: 0161f9f5a12d91f27098f0e9a47e187e62eeadbec7167ccd709471ba5c39310f

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 100/100. Overall suitability: MARGINAL (Global 53/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Poor, Coding: Weak, Instruction Following: Weak, Structured Output: Poor, Math: Poor, Multilingual: Poor.

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