phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3-8b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3 · 8B · 4bit

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

59 vs 89

Hardware Fit

100 vs 95

Quality Score

41 vs 87

Hardware

phi:2.7b qwen/qwen3-8b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi:2.7b qwen/qwen3-8b

Tokens/sec56.633.4

First chunkN/A257 ms

TTFT110 ms257 ms

Load time0.4 sN/A

Memory usage2.2 GB4.3 GB

Memory %7%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

qwen/qwen3-8b

Speed

45/50

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

qwen/qwen3-8b

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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