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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

microllm-10m:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 10.00M · F16

Not Rec.

Jun 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
55 vs 33
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
36 vs 4

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… microllm-10m:latest
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-3.5-mini-instr… microllm-10m:latest
Tokens/sec43.41544.8
First chunk359 ms12 ms
TTFT359 ms12 ms
Load timeN/A0.0 s
Memory usage2.0 GB0.0 GB
Memory %6%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

microllm-10m:latest

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

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

microllm-10m:latest

Reasoning
0/20
Coding
0/20
Instruction
4/20
Structured
0/15
Math
0/15
Multilingual
0/10
Reasoning: Poor Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Poor
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