phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3-coder:30b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3moe · 30.5B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 4, 2026 · Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Global Score

55 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 60

Quality Score

36 vs 88

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3-coder:30b

MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4Intel Gen Intel® Core™ i7-12700K

Cores1020

RAM32 GB96 GB

GPUApple M4Parsec Virtual Display Adapter, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Enterprise 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3-coder:30b

Tokens/sec43.414.7

First chunk359 ms796 ms

TTFT359 ms796 ms

Load timeN/A0.2 s

Memory usage2.0 GB17.9 GB

Memory %6%19%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3-coder:30b

Speed

14/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

27/30

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-coder:30b

Reasoning

17/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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