qwen3:8b

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4:14b

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

42 vs 65

Hardware Fit

60 vs 77

Quality Score

30 vs 57

Hardware

qwen3:8b phi4:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownunknown

Performance

qwen3:8b phi4:14b

Tokens/sec18.211.1

TTFT12.4 s515 ms

Load time2.7 s9.3 s

Memory usage9.5 GB13.4 GB

Memory %30%42%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3:8b

Speed

27/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

phi4:14b

Speed

17/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

4/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

phi4:14b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

13/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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