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phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 0.5B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
59 vs 52
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 31

Hardware

phi:2.7b qwen2.5-0.5b-instr…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec56.6257.5
First chunkN/A99 ms
TTFT110 ms99 ms
Load time0.4 sN/A
Memory usage2.2 GB0.3 GB
Memory %7%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi:2.7b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Speed
50/50
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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct-mlx

Reasoning
4/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
10/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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