phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

38 vs 53

Hardware Fit

100 vs 99

Quality Score

12 vs 33

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec44.025.4

First chunk384 ms266 ms

TTFT385 ms266 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %6%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

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

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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