phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 4.3B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Jun 25, 2026 · Cortex-A78AE

Global Score

38 vs 46

Hardware Fit

100 vs 93

Quality Score

12 vs 26

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… gemma3:4b

MachineMacBook AirNVIDIA NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Engineering Reference Developer Kit Super

CPUApple M4Cortex-A78AE

Cores106

RAM32 GB7 GB

GPUApple M4Integrated / Unknown

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… gemma3:4b

Tokens/sec44.014.9

First chunk384 ms2204 ms

TTFT385 ms2.2 s

Load timeN/A2.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB2.6 GB

Memory %6%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma3:4b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

19/20

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

gemma3:4b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

11/20

Instruction

0/20

Structured

0/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

0/10

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

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