phi3:14b

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:7b

starcoder2 · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 44

Hardware Fit

83 vs 97

Quality Score

55 vs 8

Hardware

phi3:14b starcoder2:7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi3:14b starcoder2:7b

Tokens/sec12.723.8

TTFT434 ms251 ms

Load time0.9 s0.4 s

Memory usage17.7 GB6.3 GB

Memory %55%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi3:14b

Speed

23/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:7b

Speed

37/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi3:14b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

7/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

starcoder2:7b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

4/20

Structured

2/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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