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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro

Global Score
55 vs 89
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
36 vs 89

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:12b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:12b
Tokens/sec43.418.4
First chunk359 ms758 ms
TTFT359 ms758 ms
Load timeN/A0.3 s
Memory usage2.0 GB7.5 GB
Memory %6%47%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

gemma4:12b

Speed
42/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
26/30

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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
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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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest
$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest