nous-hermes2:latest

llama · 11B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

phi:2.7b

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

71 vs 65

Hardware Fit

87 vs 100

Quality Score

60 vs 41

Hardware

nous-hermes2:latest 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

nous-hermes2:latest phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec15.956.6

TTFT345 ms110 ms

Load time0.4 s0.4 s

Memory usage6.6 GB2.2 GB

Memory %21%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

nous-hermes2:latest

Speed

27/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

30/30

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/40

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

phi:2.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

11/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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