phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-4.7-opus-reasoning-distilled-apex

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B

Excellent

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

55 vs 90

Hardware Fit

100 vs 98

Quality Score

36 vs 86

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.486.6

First chunk359 ms13 ms

TTFT359 ms143 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB23.9 GB

Memory %6%37%

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

20/20

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b-claude-…

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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