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phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 9B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 11, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
38 vs 58
Hardware Fit
100 vs 68
Quality Score
12 vs 54

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB24 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.5-9b-mlx
Tokens/sec44.016.7
First chunk384 ms23 ms
TTFT385 ms14.1 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB7.8 GB
Memory %6%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

Speed
36/50
TTFT
3/20
Memory
29/30

Quality

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

qwen3.5-9b-mlx

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