phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:4b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 4.7B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-6500

Global Score

55 vs 61

Hardware Fit

100 vs 69

Quality Score

36 vs 58

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:4b

MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H170M-D3H

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-6500

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:4b

Tokens/sec43.435.7

First chunk359 ms438 ms

TTFT359 ms5.1 s

Load timeN/A40.1 s

Memory usage2.0 GB5.5 GB

Memory %6%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:4b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

11/20

Memory

8/30

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

qwen3.5:4b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

8/20

Structured

8/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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