phi4-mini

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Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:0.5b

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

38 vs 59

Hardware Fit

64 vs 99

Quality Score

21 vs 33

Hardware

phi4-mini qwen2.5:0.5b

Machine—MacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi4-mini qwen2.5:0.5b

Tokens/sec21.7162.7

TTFT11.9 s81 ms

Load time3.5 s0.5 s

Memory usage0.0 GB1.7 GB

Memory %0%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi4-mini

Speed

31/40

TTFT

3/30

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5:0.5b

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

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

11/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

4/10

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

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