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qwen2.5:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
77 vs 62
Hardware Fit
100 vs 99
Quality Score
67 vs 46

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b microsoft/phi-4-mi…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b microsoft/phi-4-mi…
Tokens/sec47.240.3
First chunkN/A289 ms
TTFT168 ms289 ms
Load time0.5 sN/A
Memory usage4.0 GB2.0 GB
Memory %13%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
7/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
7/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Weak Math: Strong Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest