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phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 8bit

Excellent

Aug 18, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
51 vs 81
Hardware Fit
46 vs 68
Quality Score
53 vs 87

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen/qwen3.8-27b
MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Pro
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M4 Max
Cores816
RAM15 GB128 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4 Max
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 26.5.2
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen/qwen3.8-27b
Tokens/sec2.616.4
First chunk5406 ms5 ms
TTFT5.4 s742 ms
Load time27.4 sN/A
Memory usage4.6 GB38.5 GB
Memory %30%30%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Speed
18/50
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

qwen/qwen3.8-27b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest