phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

55 vs 93

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

36 vs 90

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… nemotron-3-nano

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… nemotron-3-nano

Tokens/sec43.493.3

First chunk359 ms257 ms

TTFT359 ms257 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB0.1 GB

Memory %6%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

nemotron-3-nano

Speed

50/50

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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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