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hermes3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

phi4:14b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 14.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
74 vs 77
Hardware Fit
94 vs 74
Quality Score
65 vs 78

Hardware

hermes3:8b phi4:14b
MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA_DGX_Spark
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

hermes3:8b phi4:14b
Tokens/sec22.322.9
First chunk296 ms198 ms
TTFT296 ms198 ms
Load time0.8 s10.3 s
Memory usage10.2 GB14.7 GB
Memory %32%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

hermes3:8b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

phi4:14b

Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

hermes3:8b

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

phi4:14b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
13/15
Math
7/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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