phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

openai/gpt-oss-20b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gpt_oss · 20B · MXFP4

Not Rec.

Jul 17, 2026 · Apple M5 Max

Global Score

55 vs 83

Hardware Fit

100 vs 80

Quality Score

36 vs 84

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… openai/gpt-oss-20b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro

CPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

Cores1018

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M5 Max

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 27.0

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… openai/gpt-oss-20b

Tokens/sec43.4131.7

First chunk359 ms7 ms

TTFT359 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB15.8 GB

Memory %6%25%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

0/20

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

openai/gpt-oss-20b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

13/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

14/15

Math

15/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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