cogito:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.6B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

dolphin-phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

67 vs 61

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

53 vs 44

Hardware

cogito:3b dolphin-phi:2.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

cogito:3b dolphin-phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec45.656.1

First chunk177 msN/A

TTFT177 ms108 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage7.0 GB2.2 GB

Memory %22%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

cogito:3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed

40/50

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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

2/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest