phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

38 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 69

Quality Score

12 vs 54

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.5:35b-a3b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec44.030.5

First chunk384 ms333 ms

TTFT385 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A9.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB25.1 GB

Memory %6%52%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

24/30

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

6/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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