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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen2 · 1.5B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score
55 vs 61
Hardware Fit
100 vs 69
Quality Score
36 vs 58

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
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

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen2.5-1.5b-instr…
Tokens/sec43.46.6
First chunk359 ms2277 ms
TTFT359 ms2.3 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB0.9 GB
Memory %6%6%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Speed
23/50
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

qwen2.5-1.5b-instruct

Reasoning
9/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
13/20
Structured
14/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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