qwen2.5:0.5b

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

dolphin-phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 66

Hardware Fit

99 vs 100

Quality Score

33 vs 44

Hardware

qwen2.5:0.5b dolphin-phi:2.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:0.5b dolphin-phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec162.756.1

TTFT81 ms108 ms

Load time0.5 s0.4 s

Memory usage1.7 GB2.2 GB

Memory %5%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

2/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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