phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

minimax-m2.7:cloud

OLLAMA GGUF

minimax

Not Rec.

Apr 1, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 74

Hardware Fit

100 vs 34

Quality Score

36 vs 91

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… minimax-m2.7:cloud

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.40.0

First chunk359 ms7588 ms

TTFT359 ms11.4 s

Load timeN/A0.0 s

Memory usage2.0 GB0.7 GB

Memory %6%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

minimax-m2.7:cloud

Speed

0/50

TTFT

4/20

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

minimax-m2.7:cloud

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

14/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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