qwen3:1.7b

qwen3 · 2.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

70 vs 38

Hardware Fit

87 vs 64

Quality Score

59 vs 21

Hardware

qwen3:1.7b phi4-mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3:1.7b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec37.921.7

TTFT3.1 s11.9 s

Load time1.2 s3.5 s

Memory usage4.9 GB0.0 GB

Memory %15%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:1.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

17/30

Memory

30/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:1.7b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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