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

Jun 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

38 vs 79

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

12 vs 71

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… ministral-3:8b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1012

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.6.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3-mini-128k-in… ministral-3:8b

Tokens/sec44.041.4

First chunk384 ms257 ms

TTFT385 ms257 ms

Load timeN/A5.2 s

Memory usage2.0 GB9.0 GB

Memory %6%38%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

ministral-3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

12/20

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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