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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

glm4:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

chatglm · 9.4B · Q4_0

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
55 vs 76
Hardware Fit
100 vs 88
Quality Score
36 vs 71

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… glm4:9b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… glm4:9b
Tokens/sec43.419.0
First chunk359 ms290 ms
TTFT359 ms290 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage2.0 GB8.1 GB
Memory %6%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

glm4:9b

Speed
38/50
TTFT
20/20
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

glm4:9b

Reasoning
14/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
13/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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