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cogito:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

phi3:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
67 vs 63
Hardware Fit
100 vs 83
Quality Score
53 vs 55

Hardware

cogito:3b phi3:14b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

cogito:3b phi3:14b
Tokens/sec45.612.7
First chunk177 msN/A
TTFT177 ms434 ms
Load time0.8 s0.9 s
Memory usage7.0 GB17.7 GB
Memory %22%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

cogito:3b

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

phi3:14b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
30/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

cogito:3b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
8/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
15/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong

phi3:14b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
7/15
Math
8/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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