qwen2.5:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

MacBook Air (Apple M4)

32 GB · macOS 26.3

Tested on March 2, 2026

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Global Score

85 /100

Excellent

Hardware Fit

95/100

Quality

79/100

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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: 22.2
Standard deviation Variation of speed across benchmark runs — lower means more consistent: ±0.2
Time to first token How fast the model starts responding — lower is better: 285 ms
Load time Time to load the model into memory before inference: 0.8 s
Memory usage RAM consumed during inference — percentage of total system memory: 7.6 GB (24%)
Total tokens Total number of tokens generated across all benchmark prompts: 988

Score breakdown

Speed

35/40

Time to first token

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction following

16/20

Structured output

14/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

Category levels

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

Metadata

Spec version: 0.2.0
Runtime: Ollama 0.17.4
Model format: GGUF
Hardware profile: BALANCED
Result hash: 291eb12802247f1fc4923c7142cd9f92a859686669f4b44aa2a7556cfb876158

Interpretation

Hardware fit: 95/100. Overall suitability: EXCELLENT (Global 85/100). Category profile: Reasoning: Adequate, Coding: Strong, Instruction Following: Strong, Structured Output: Strong, Math: Adequate, Multilingual: Strong.

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