phi4:14b
OLLAMA GGUFphi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M
Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
LM-STUDIO MLXqwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit
Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
Global Score
77 vs 59
Hardware Fit
74 vs 63
Quality Score
78 vs 58
Hardware
phi4:14b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_SparkMacBook Pro
CPUCortex-X925Apple M5 Max
Cores2018
RAM122 GB64 GB
GPUDevice 2e12Apple M5 Max
OSUbuntu 24.04.4 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced
Performance
phi4:14b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec22.918.3
First chunk198 ms4 ms
TTFT198 ms530 ms
Load time10.3 sN/A
Memory usage14.7 GB38.5 GB
Memory %12%60%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
phi4:14b
Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
20/30
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
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
1/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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