qwen2.5:3b

qwen2 · 3.1B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi3:3.8b

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 69

Hardware Fit

99 vs 100

Quality Score

53 vs 48

Hardware

qwen2.5:3b phi3:3.8b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen2.5:3b phi3:3.8b

Tokens/sec38.542.0

TTFT204 ms142 ms

Load time0.5 s1.1 s

Memory usage4.0 GB16.0 GB

Memory %13%50%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5:3b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

phi3:3.8b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5:3b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

phi3:3.8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

11/20

Structured

10/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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