phi3:3.8b

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:360m

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

69 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

48 vs 32

Hardware

phi3:3.8b smollm2:360m

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 smollm2:360m

Tokens/sec42.0117.9

TTFT142 ms43 ms

Load time1.1 s0.4 s

Memory usage16.0 GB1.2 GB

Memory %50%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:3.8b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:360m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

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

smollm2:360m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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