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qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 3, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
55 vs 38
Hardware Fit
87 vs 100
Quality Score
41 vs 12

Hardware

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx phi-3-mini-128k-in…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx phi-3-mini-128k-in…
Tokens/sec68.244.0
First chunk3268 ms384 ms
TTFT3.3 s385 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage0.6 GB2.0 GB
Memory %2%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed
50/50
TTFT
13/20
Memory
24/30

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

Quality

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
12/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Adequate

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Reasoning
3/20
Coding
2/20
Instruction
2/20
Structured
1/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
2/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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