phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score

55 vs 69

Hardware Fit

100 vs 85

Quality Score

36 vs 62

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:4b

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-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec43.436.9

First chunk359 ms474 ms

TTFT359 ms6.9 s

Load timeN/A2.9 s

Memory usage2.0 GB5.3 GB

Memory %6%33%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

29/30

Quality

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

1/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

9/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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