phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

granite-3.1-1b-a400m-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

granitemoe · 1B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

55 vs 50

Hardware Fit

100 vs 95

Quality Score

36 vs 31

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… granite-3.1-1b-a40…

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.419.6

First chunk359 ms1141 ms

TTFT359 ms1.1 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB0.8 GB

Memory %6%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

granite-3.1-1b-a400m-in…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

25/30

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

granite-3.1-1b-a400m-in…

Reasoning

3/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

10/15

Math

2/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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