phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 7, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Global Score

55 vs 81

Hardware Fit

100 vs 96

Quality Score

36 vs 75

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14600KF

Cores1020

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Famille 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec43.4109.1

First chunk359 ms190 ms

TTFT359 ms190 ms

Load timeN/A4.3 s

Memory usage2.0 GB5.6 GB

Memory %6%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

15/20

Coding

16/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

6/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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