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phi3:3.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/quantized-gemma-2b-it

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
64 vs 45
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
48 vs 21

Hardware

phi3:3.8b mlx-community/quan…
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 mlx-community/quan…
Tokens/sec42.044.4
First chunkN/A336 ms
TTFT142 ms336 ms
Load time1.1 sN/A
Memory usage16.0 GB0.1 GB
Memory %50%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:3.8b

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

mlx-community/quantized…

Speed
50/50
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

mlx-community/quantized…

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
9/20
Structured
4/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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