phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

cogito:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 77

Hardware Fit

100 vs 92

Quality Score

41 vs 70

Hardware

phi:2.7b cogito:8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi:2.7b cogito:8b

Tokens/sec56.621.0

First chunkN/A312 ms

TTFT110 ms312 ms

Load time0.4 s0.8 s

Memory usage2.2 GB10.4 GB

Memory %7%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

cogito:8b

Speed

42/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi:2.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

11/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

cogito:8b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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