phi-3.5-mini-instruct
LM-STUDIO MLXphi3 · 4bit
Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex
LM-STUDIO GGUFqwen35moe · 35B
Aug 19, 2026 · Apple M4 Max
Global Score
55 vs 88
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
36 vs 92
Hardware
phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.6-35b-a3b-cl…
Tokens/sec43.476.7
First chunk359 ms29 ms
TTFT359 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB23.9 GB
Memory %6%19%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
phi-3.5-mini-instruct
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
0/20
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
qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…
Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
14/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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