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phi4-mini

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Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
39 vs 80
Hardware Fit
66 vs 81
Quality Score
21 vs 80

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen3.5:9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen3.5:9b
Tokens/sec21.811.8
TTFT9.6 s523 ms
Load time3.5 s2.9 s
Memory usage0.0 GB9.1 GB
Memory %0%28%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

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

qwen3.5:9b

Speed
21/40
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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
10/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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