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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
55 vs 33
Hardware Fit
100 vs 74
Quality Score
36 vs 15

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.411.5
First chunk359 ms670 ms
TTFT359 ms670 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB3.0 GB
Memory %6%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed
24/50
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

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Reasoning
8/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
1/20
Structured
1/15
Math
1/15
Multilingual
3/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Poor Structured Output: Poor Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak
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