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phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jun 26, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
74 vs 55
Hardware Fit
98 vs 87
Quality Score
63 vs 41

Hardware

phi4-mini:latest qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
MachineNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit SuperMacBook Air
CPUCortex-A78AEApple M4
Cores610
RAM7 GB32 GB
GPUIntegrated / UnknownApple M4
OSUbuntu 22.04.5 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini:latest qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx
Tokens/sec18.468.2
First chunk1078 ms3268 ms
TTFT1.1 s3.3 s
Load time6.4 sN/A
Memory usage2.9 GB0.6 GB
Memory %39%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini:latest

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
28/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

Quality

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning
13/20
Coding
11/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

Run yours and compare

$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest