phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3:latest

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

39 vs 68

Hardware Fit

66 vs 94

Quality Score

21 vs 51

Hardware

phi4-mini llama3:latest

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini llama3:latest

Tokens/sec21.821.4

TTFT9.6 s297 ms

Load time3.5 s0.8 s

Memory usage0.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %0%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

5/30

Memory

30/30

llama3:latest

Speed

34/40

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

llama3:latest

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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