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phi4-mini

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Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi3:14b

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
39 vs 66
Hardware Fit
66 vs 83
Quality Score
21 vs 55

Hardware

phi4-mini phi3:14b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini phi3:14b
Tokens/sec21.812.7
TTFT9.6 s434 ms
Load time3.5 s0.9 s
Memory usage0.0 GB17.7 GB
Memory %0%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed
31/40
TTFT
5/30
Memory
30/30

phi3:14b

Speed
23/40
TTFT
30/30
Memory
30/30

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak

phi3:14b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
7/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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