phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:270m

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 268.10M · Q8_0

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M3 Pro

Global Score

38 vs 50

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

12 vs 30

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… gemma3:270m

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M3 Pro

Cores1012

RAM32 GB36 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M3 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.5

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… gemma3:270m

Tokens/sec44.0239.2

First chunk384 ms127 ms

TTFT385 ms127 ms

Load timeN/A0.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.6 GB

Memory %6%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma3:270m

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

27/30

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

gemma3:270m

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

8/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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