phi4:14b

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:360m

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 59

Hardware Fit

79 vs 100

Quality Score

73 vs 32

Hardware

phi4:14b smollm2:360m

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4:14b smollm2:360m

Tokens/sec11.0117.9

TTFT532 ms43 ms

Load time0.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage13.4 GB1.2 GB

Memory %42%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4:14b

Speed

19/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:360m

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi4:14b

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

13/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

smollm2:360m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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