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phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Not Rec.

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

granite4.2:3b

OLLAMA GGUF

granite · 3.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 29, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
38 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
12 vs 80

Hardware

phi-3-mini-128k-in… granite4.2:3b
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… granite4.2:3b
Tokens/sec44.046.8
First chunk384 ms135 ms
TTFT385 ms135 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage2.0 GB12.7 GB
Memory %6%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3-mini-128k-instruct

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

granite4.2:3b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

granite4.2:3b

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
13/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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