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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score
55 vs 77
Hardware Fit
100 vs 53
Quality Score
36 vs 87

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:35b
MachineMacBook AirASUS
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14600KF
Cores1020
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:35b
Tokens/sec43.416.0
First chunk359 ms719 ms
TTFT359 ms719 ms
Load timeN/A17.8 s
Memory usage2.0 GB25.0 GB
Memory %6%79%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

qwen3.5:35b

Speed
23/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
10/30

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

qwen3.5:35b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
15/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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