phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma4 · 11.9B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Jul 7, 2026 · Cortex-X925

Global Score

55 vs 86

Hardware Fit

100 vs 79

Quality Score

36 vs 89

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:12b

MachineMacBook AirASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GX10

CPUApple M4Cortex-X925

Cores1020

RAM32 GB122 GB

GPUApple M4Device 2e12

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:12b

Tokens/sec43.427.5

First chunk359 ms484 ms

TTFT359 ms484 ms

Load timeN/A8.2 s

Memory usage2.0 GB9.3 GB

Memory %6%8%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma4:12b

Speed

29/50

TTFT

20/20

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

gemma4:12b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

17/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest