phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:0.6b

qwen3 · 751.63M · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

65 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

41 vs 44

Hardware

phi:2.7b qwen3:0.6b

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 qwen3:0.6b

Tokens/sec56.6144.3

TTFT110 ms81 ms

Load time0.4 s0.9 s

Memory usage2.2 GB4.1 GB

Memory %7%13%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3:0.6b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

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

qwen3:0.6b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

13/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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