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phi4-mini

OLLAMA GGUF
Not Rec.

Aug 28, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-10210U

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1.7B · bf16

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
51 vs 65
Hardware Fit
46 vs 99
Quality Score
53 vs 51

Hardware

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MachineLENOVO 20U30029MBMacBook Air
CPUIntel Core™ i5-10210UApple M4
Cores810
RAM15 GB32 GB
GPUCometLake-U GT2 [UHD Graphics]Apple M4
OSPop 24.04 LTSmacOS 26.3
Archx64arm64
Power Modeperformancebalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec2.628.5
First chunk5406 ms393 ms
TTFT5.4 s393 ms
Load time27.4 sN/A
Memory usage4.6 GB3.2 GB
Memory %30%10%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

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

smollm2-1.7b-instruct

Reasoning
10/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
11/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate
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