phi3:3.8b

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:1b

llama · 1.2B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

69 vs 63

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

48 vs 39

Hardware

phi3:3.8b llama3.2:1b

MachineMacBook Air—

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi3:3.8b llama3.2:1b

Tokens/sec42.028.2

TTFT142 ms199 ms

Load time1.1 s1.8 s

Memory usage16.0 GB4.3 GB

Memory %50%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:3.8b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:1b

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

llama3.2:1b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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