phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 81

Hardware Fit

100 vs 84

Quality Score

41 vs 79

Hardware

phi:2.7b qwen3.5-9b

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 qwen3.5-9b

Tokens/sec56.620.4

First chunkN/A3034 ms

TTFT110 ms3.0 s

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage2.2 GB5.6 GB

Memory %7%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-9b

Speed

41/50

TTFT

14/20

Memory

29/30

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

qwen3.5-9b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

15/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

10/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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