mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B-Chat-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

73 vs 55

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

62 vs 36

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec29.143.4

First chunk451 ms359 ms

TTFT451 ms359 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.9 GB2.0 GB

Memory %3%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Yi-1.5-6B…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

10/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

13/15

Math

9/15

Multilingual

6/10

Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Adequate

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

1/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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