phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

38 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 77

Quality Score

12 vs 81

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.6:35b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB48 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec44.0129.8

First chunk384 ms77 ms

TTFT385 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A1.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB19.7 GB

Memory %6%41%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6:35b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

27/30

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-mlx

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

9/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

11/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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