phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b-mlx

OLLAMA GGUF

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score

55 vs 84

Hardware Fit

100 vs 82

Quality Score

36 vs 85

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:12b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro

Cores1010

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:12b-mlx

Tokens/sec43.427.2

First chunk359 ms732 ms

TTFT359 ms8.1 s

Load timeN/A3.5 s

Memory usage2.0 GB7.1 GB

Memory %6%44%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

26/30

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

gemma4:12b-mlx

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest