phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.1:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 8.0B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 15, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Global Score

55 vs 81

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

36 vs 73

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… llama3.1:8b

MachineMacBook AirGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. B760 AORUS ELITE AX DDR4

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-14400F

Cores1016

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Professionnel 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… llama3.1:8b

Tokens/sec43.470.2

First chunk359 ms58 ms

TTFT359 ms58 ms

Load timeN/A4.1 s

Memory usage2.0 GB4.9 GB

Memory %6%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.1:8b

Speed

50/50

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

llama3.1:8b

Reasoning

12/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

13/15

Math

5/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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