phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

phi:2.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

phi2 · 3B · Q4_0

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 59

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

36 vs 41

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… phi:2.7b

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… phi:2.7b

Tokens/sec43.456.6

First chunk359 msN/A

TTFT359 ms110 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage2.0 GB2.2 GB

Memory %6%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

phi:2.7b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

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

phi:2.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

9/20

Structured

11/15

Math

8/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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