phi4-mini:latest

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

phi3:14b

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 63

Hardware Fit

100 vs 83

Quality Score

58 vs 55

Hardware

phi4-mini:latest phi3:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini:latest phi3:14b

Tokens/sec36.212.7

TTFT190 ms434 ms

Load time0.8 s0.9 s

Memory usage8.3 GB17.7 GB

Memory %26%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini:latest

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi3:14b

Speed

23/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

phi4-mini:latest

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

phi3:14b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

7/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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