phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

59 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 88

Quality Score

41 vs 76

Hardware

phi:2.7b qwen3.5:4b

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 qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec56.616.6

TTFT110 ms369 ms

Load time0.4 s1.5 s

Memory usage2.2 GB6.5 GB

Memory %7%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

28/40

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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