phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4_k_m.gguf

OPENAI GGUF

Good

Apr 21, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

38 vs 62

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

12 vs 46

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3-vl-4b-instru…

MachineMacBook AirMac Studio

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

Cores1012

RAM32 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3-vl-4b-instru…

Tokens/sec44.067.8

First chunk384 ms62 ms

TTFT385 ms64 ms

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.0 GB

Memory %6%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

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-vl-4b-instruct-q4…

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

1/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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