phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-opus-distilled-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 10, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

38 vs 34

Hardware Fit

100 vs 21

Quality Score

12 vs 39

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec44.06.1

First chunk384 ms7 ms

TTFT385 ms22.9 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB19.8 GB

Memory %6%82%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Speed

12/50

TTFT

0/20

Memory

9/30

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

qwen3.5-27b-claude-4.6-…

Reasoning

1/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

8/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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