phi4-mini:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

llama2:7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 55

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

58 vs 36

Hardware

phi4-mini:latest llama2:7b

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 llama2:7b

Tokens/sec36.225.1

First chunkN/AN/A

TTFT190 ms228 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage8.3 GB5.8 GB

Memory %26%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini:latest

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

llama2:7b

Speed

39/50

TTFT

30/20

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

llama2:7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

8/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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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