phi4-mini

Not Rec.

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:360m

llama · 361.82M · F16

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

38 vs 58

Hardware Fit

64 vs 99

Quality Score

21 vs 30

Hardware

phi4-mini smollm2:360m

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini smollm2:360m

Tokens/sec21.7115.1

TTFT11.9 s39 ms

Load time3.5 s0.4 s

Memory usage0.0 GB1.2 GB

Memory %0%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

smollm2:360m

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

smollm2:360m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

9/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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