phi4:14b

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

starcoder2:3b

starcoder2 · 3B · Q4_0

Not Rec.

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 39

Hardware Fit

79 vs 100

Quality Score

73 vs 13

Hardware

phi4:14b starcoder2:3b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4:14b starcoder2:3b

Tokens/sec11.049.4

TTFT532 ms155 ms

Load time0.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage13.4 GB3.0 GB

Memory %42%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4:14b

Speed

19/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

starcoder2:3b

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

starcoder2:3b

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

2/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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