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phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
77 vs 81
Hardware Fit
74 vs 68
Quality Score
78 vs 87

Hardware

phi4:14b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M4 Max
Cores2016
RAM122 GB128 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M4 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4:14b qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec22.916.4
First chunk198 ms5 ms
TTFT198 ms742 ms
Load time10.3 sN/A
Memory usage14.7 GB38.5 GB
Memory %12%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4:14b

Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

phi4:14b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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