nous-hermes2:latest

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi3:14b

phi3 · 14.0B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 66

Hardware Fit

87 vs 83

Quality Score

60 vs 55

Hardware

nous-hermes2:latest phi3:14b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

nous-hermes2:latest phi3:14b

Tokens/sec15.912.7

TTFT345 ms434 ms

Load time0.4 s0.9 s

Memory usage6.6 GB17.7 GB

Memory %21%55%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi3:14b

Speed

23/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

Quality

nous-hermes2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

15/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

phi3:14b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

7/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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