phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 0.5B · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

55 vs 53

Hardware Fit

100 vs 89

Quality Score

36 vs 38

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.413.2

First chunk359 ms1339 ms

TTFT359 ms1.3 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB0.4 GB

Memory %6%2%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

Speed

41/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

28/30

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

qwen2.5-0.5b-instruct

Reasoning

5/20

Coding

4/20

Instruction

10/20

Structured

11/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

5/10

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

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