phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

LM-STUDIO MLX

lfm2_moe · 24B · 4bit

Good

Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 74

Hardware Fit

100 vs 84

Quality Score

36 vs 69

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Tokens/sec43.458.9

First chunk359 ms28 ms

TTFT359 ms481 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB17.5 GB

Memory %6%73%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

14/30

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

liquid/lfm2-24b-a2b

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

12/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

13/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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