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phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

LM-STUDIO UNKNOWN

27B

Good

Aug 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score
51 vs 66
Hardware Fit
46 vs 91
Quality Score
53 vs 55

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen3.8-27b-mlx
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M5 Max
Cores818
RAM15 GB64 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M5 Max
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 27.0
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen3.8-27b-mlx
Tokens/sec2.633.2
First chunk5406 ms7 ms
TTFT5.4 s311 ms
Load time27.4 sN/A
Memory usage4.6 GB0.5 GB
Memory %30%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed
6/50
TTFT
10/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Speed
41/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
12/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

qwen3.8-27b-mlx

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Weak
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