phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 0.8B · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

55 vs 53

Hardware Fit

100 vs 89

Quality Score

36 vs 38

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Tokens/sec43.452.9

First chunk359 ms4013 ms

TTFT359 ms4.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB0.6 GB

Memory %6%1%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Speed

50/50

TTFT

9/20

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

qwen3.5-0.8b-mlx

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

2/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest