phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:135m

llama · 134.52M · F16

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

65 vs 49

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

41 vs 15

Hardware

phi:2.7b smollm2:135m

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 smollm2:135m

Tokens/sec56.6241.0

TTFT110 ms39 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage2.2 GB0.6 GB

Memory %7%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:135m

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

smollm2:135m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

2/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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