phi3:3.8b

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

64 vs 39

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

48 vs 13

Hardware

phi3:3.8b starcoder2:3b

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 starcoder2:3b

Tokens/sec42.049.4

TTFT142 ms155 ms

Load time1.1 s0.4 s

Memory usage16.0 GB3.0 GB

Memory %50%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:3.8b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:3b

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

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

2/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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