phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

38 vs 70

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

12 vs 71

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.6:35b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.6:35b

Tokens/sec44.030.6

First chunk384 ms304 ms

TTFT385 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A10.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB28.1 GB

Memory %6%59%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6:35b

Speed

45/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

21/30

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

qwen3.6:35b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

6/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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