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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
55 vs 95
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
36 vs 95

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gpt-oss-20b
MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gpt-oss-20b
Tokens/sec43.4118.2
First chunk359 ms471 ms
TTFT359 ms2.2 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB11.3 GB
Memory %6%18%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

gpt-oss-20b

Speed
50/50
TTFT
14/20
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

gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
18/20
Structured
15/15
Math
15/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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