mlx-community/Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

57 vs 38

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

39 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/sec126.444.0

First chunk139 ms384 ms

TTFT139 ms385 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.3 GB2.0 GB

Memory %1%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Llama-3.2…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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Reasoning

5/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

10/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Adequate 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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