phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder:6.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 7B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 57

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

36 vs 39

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… deepseek-coder:6.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… deepseek-coder:6.7b

Tokens/sec43.424.1

First chunk359 msN/A

TTFT359 ms251 ms

Load timeN/A0.9 s

Memory usage2.0 GB12.6 GB

Memory %6%39%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Speed

38/50

TTFT

30/20

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

deepseek-coder:6.7b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

6/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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