qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

50 vs 65

Hardware Fit

67 vs 100

Quality Score

38 vs 41

Hardware

qwen3:8b phi:2.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:8b phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec18.756.6

TTFT12.1 s110 ms

Load time1.2 s0.4 s

Memory usage9.5 GB2.2 GB

Memory %30%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

31/40

TTFT

6/30

Memory

30/30

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

5/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

12/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

phi:2.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

11/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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