phi4-mini

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Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

tinyllama:1.1b

llama · 1B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

38 vs 50

Hardware Fit

64 vs 99

Quality Score

21 vs 18

Hardware

phi4-mini tinyllama:1.1b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini tinyllama:1.1b

Tokens/sec21.7129.6

TTFT11.9 s58 ms

Load time3.5 s0.4 s

Memory usage0.0 GB0.7 GB

Memory %0%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

tinyllama:1.1b

Speed

40/40

TTFT

30/30

Memory

29/30

Quality

phi4-mini

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

tinyllama:1.1b

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

6/20

Structured

7/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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