llama3.1:8b

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

dolphin-phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

66 vs 61

Hardware Fit

56 vs 100

Quality Score

70 vs 44

Hardware

llama3.1:8b dolphin-phi:2.7b

MachineMac MiniMacBook Air

CPUApple M4 ProApple M4

Cores1410

RAM64 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4 ProApple M4

OSmacOS 15.7.4macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modeunknownbalanced

Performance

llama3.1:8b dolphin-phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec5.556.1

TTFT1.4 s108 ms

Load time3.7 s0.4 s

Memory usage28.6 GB2.2 GB

Memory %45%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

llama3.1:8b

Speed

5/40

TTFT

22/30

Memory

29/30

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

13/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

10/10

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