phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama2:13b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 13B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

38 vs 56

Hardware Fit

100 vs 84

Quality Score

12 vs 44

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… llama2:13b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… llama2:13b

Tokens/sec44.013.5

First chunk384 msN/A

TTFT385 ms415 ms

Load timeN/A0.6 s

Memory usage2.0 GB10.3 GB

Memory %6%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama2:13b

Speed

24/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

30/30

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

llama2:13b

Reasoning

9/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

7/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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