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ministral-3:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
71 vs 38
Hardware Fit
99 vs 100
Quality Score
59 vs 12

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/sec42.244.0
First chunk189 ms384 ms
TTFT189 ms385 ms
Load time1.2 sN/A
Memory usage7.0 GB2.0 GB
Memory %22%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

ministral-3:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
29/30

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

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

Quality

ministral-3:3b

Reasoning
5/20
Coding
16/20
Instruction
11/20
Structured
14/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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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