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phi3:3.8b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen36-distill-apex

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
64 vs 36
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
48 vs 8

Hardware

phi3:3.8b qwen36-distill-apex
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 qwen36-distill-apex
Tokens/sec42.055.2
First chunkN/A210 ms
TTFT142 ms210 ms
Load time1.1 s4.8 s
Memory usage16.0 GB0.9 GB
Memory %50%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:3.8b

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

qwen36-distill-apex

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

qwen36-distill-apex

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
0/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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