phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:9b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 9.7B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Global Score

55 vs 82

Hardware Fit

100 vs 81

Quality Score

36 vs 82

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:9b

MachineMacBook AirAZW GTR Pro

CPUApple M4AMD RYZEN AI MAX+ 395

Cores1032

RAM32 GB125 GB

GPUApple M4AMD Radeon 8060S

OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:9b

Tokens/sec43.430.8

First chunk359 ms195 ms

TTFT359 ms195 ms

Load timeN/A5.2 s

Memory usage2.0 GB18.8 GB

Memory %6%15%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.5:9b

Speed

31/50

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

qwen3.5:9b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

17/20

Instruction

15/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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