phi4-mini

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Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:7b

qwen2 · 7.6B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

39 vs 85

Hardware Fit

66 vs 95

Quality Score

21 vs 79

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen2.5:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen2.5:7b

Tokens/sec21.822.2

TTFT9.6 s285 ms

Load time3.5 s0.8 s

Memory usage0.0 GB7.6 GB

Memory %0%24%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

5/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:7b

Speed

35/40

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

qwen2.5:7b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

14/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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