phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

smollm2:1.7b

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 1.7B · Q8_0

Good

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 64

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

36 vs 49

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… smollm2:1.7b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… smollm2:1.7b

Tokens/sec43.451.8

First chunk359 msN/A

TTFT359 ms84 ms

Load timeN/A0.4 s

Memory usage2.0 GB3.7 GB

Memory %6%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

smollm2:1.7b

Speed

40/50

TTFT

30/20

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

smollm2:1.7b

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

13/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

6/10

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

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