phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_S

Not Rec.

Apr 20, 2026 · Apple M2 Max

Global Score

55 vs 82

Hardware Fit

100 vs 80

Quality Score

36 vs 83

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.6-35b-a3b

MachineMacBook AirMac Studio

CPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

Cores1012

RAM32 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M2 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.1

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Tokens/sec43.455.2

First chunk359 ms4 ms

TTFT359 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB30.3 GB

Memory %6%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

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

qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

18/20

Structured

14/15

Math

14/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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