phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:1b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 999.89M · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 68

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

36 vs 55

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma3:1b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma3:1b

Tokens/sec43.439.5

First chunk359 msN/A

TTFT359 ms333 ms

Load timeN/A1.6 s

Memory usage2.0 GB1.3 GB

Memory %6%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma3:1b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

Memory

28/30

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

gemma3:1b

Reasoning

6/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

12/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

8/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest