llama3.2:3b

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

69 vs 39

Hardware Fit

98 vs 66

Quality Score

49 vs 21

Hardware

llama3.2:3b phi4-mini

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

llama3.2:3b phi4-mini

Tokens/sec27.821.8

TTFT285 ms9.6 s

Load time1.9 s3.5 s

Memory usage7.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %22%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.2:3b

Speed

38/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

5/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama3.2:3b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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