qwen3:0.6b

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 2, 2026

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Global Score

66 /100

Good

Hardware Fit

100/100

Quality

44/100

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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: 144.3
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: 81 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 0.9 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 4.1 GB (13%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 1025

Score breakdown

Speed

40/40

Time to first token

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction following

10/20

Structured output

13/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

5/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.0
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.5
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: 44a809e5f516dab512e3a41482d5c770c94e880bbae3a06cff9da33ce9653b6e

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 100/100. Overall suitability: GOOD (Global 66/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Weak, Coding: Poor, Instruction Following: Adequate, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Weak, Multilingual: Weak.

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