phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 25.8B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Apr 3, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 85

Hardware Fit

100 vs 77

Quality Score

36 vs 89

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:26b

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… gemma4:26b

Tokens/sec43.424.5

First chunk359 ms1481 ms

TTFT359 ms1.5 s

Load timeN/A24.7 s

Memory usage2.0 GB20.3 GB

Memory %6%85%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:26b

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

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

gemma4:26b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

14/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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