phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:e4b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Not Rec.

Jul 7, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score

38 vs 78

Hardware Fit

100 vs 72

Quality Score

12 vs 81

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… gemma4:e4b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… gemma4:e4b-mlx

Tokens/sec44.026.9

First chunk384 ms222 ms

TTFT385 ms222 ms

Load timeN/A0.1 s

Memory usage2.0 GB15.4 GB

Memory %6%96%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

2/30

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

gemma4:e4b-mlx

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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