phi4:14b
OLLAMA GGUFphi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN27B
Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max
Global Score
75 vs 66
Hardware Fit
79 vs 91
Quality Score
73 vs 55
Hardware
phi4:14b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
Cores1018
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
phi4:14b qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec11.033.2
First chunkN/A7 ms
TTFT532 ms311 ms
Load time0.7 sN/A
Memory usage13.4 GB0.5 GB
Memory %42%1%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
phi4:14b
Speed
19/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
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
qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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