phi4-mini:latest

phi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

dolphin-phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

75 vs 66

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

58 vs 44

Hardware

phi4-mini:latest dolphin-phi:2.7b

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 dolphin-phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec36.256.1

TTFT190 ms108 ms

Load time0.8 s0.4 s

Memory usage8.3 GB2.2 GB

Memory %26%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini:latest

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

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

dolphin-phi:2.7b

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

6/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

2/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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