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phi3:3.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
64 vs 66
Hardware Fit
100 vs 91
Quality Score
48 vs 55

Hardware

phi3:3.8b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi3:3.8b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec42.033.2
First chunkN/A7 ms
TTFT142 ms311 ms
Load time1.1 sN/A
Memory usage16.0 GB0.5 GB
Memory %50%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:3.8b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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