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phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

ministral-3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

mistral3 · 8.9B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 25, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
38 vs 72
Hardware Fit
100 vs 71
Quality Score
12 vs 72

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… ministral-3:8b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… ministral-3:8b
Tokens/sec44.019.8
First chunk384 ms269 ms
TTFT385 ms269 ms
Load timeN/A10.7 s
Memory usage2.0 GB13.7 GB
Memory %6%86%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

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

ministral-3:8b

Speed
44/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
7/30

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

ministral-3:8b

Reasoning
12/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
13/15
Math
6/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong

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