phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 4B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

38 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 35

Quality Score

12 vs 73

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.5-4b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Tokens/sec44.00.0

First chunk384 ms5548 ms

TTFT385 ms5.5 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB2.9 GB

Memory %6%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Speed

0/50

TTFT

6/20

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

qwen3.5-4b-mlx

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

8/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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