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neural-chat:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
67 vs 55
Hardware Fit
96 vs 100
Quality Score
55 vs 36

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec22.543.4
First chunkN/A359 ms
TTFT242 ms359 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage4.5 GB2.0 GB
Memory %14%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

neural-chat:7b

Speed
36/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

Quality

neural-chat:7b

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
4/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
1/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
6/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Weak Multilingual: Adequate
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