phi3:3.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mistralai/devstral-small-2-2512

LM-STUDIO MLX

mistral3 · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

64 vs 69

Hardware Fit

100 vs 50

Quality Score

48 vs 77

Hardware

phi3:3.8b mistralai/devstral…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi3:3.8b mistralai/devstral…

Tokens/sec42.05.7

First chunkN/A5007 ms

TTFT142 ms5.0 s

Load time1.1 sN/A

Memory usage16.0 GB13.2 GB

Memory %50%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:3.8b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Speed

11/50

TTFT

9/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi3:3.8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

10/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

mistralai/devstral-smal…

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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