phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2-135m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 135M · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

38 vs 38

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

12 vs 12

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… smollm2-135m-instr…

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… smollm2-135m-instr…

Tokens/sec44.039.3

First chunk384 ms573 ms

TTFT385 ms573 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB0.1 GB

Memory %6%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

smollm2-135m-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

smollm2-135m-instruct

Reasoning

2/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

3/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

1/10

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

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