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phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:27b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 15, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score
38 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 79
Quality Score
12 vs 87

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.8:27b
MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10
CPUApple M4Cortex-X925
Cores1020
RAM32 GB122 GB
GPUApple M4Device 2e12
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… qwen3.8:27b
Tokens/sec44.027.4
First chunk384 ms593 ms
TTFT385 ms593 ms
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage2.0 GB18.2 GB
Memory %6%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

qwen3.8:27b

Speed
29/50
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

qwen3.8:27b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
17/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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