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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

hf.co/bartowski/ai9stars_G9v3-3B-GGUF:BF16

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 2.99B · BF16

Good

Aug 22, 2026 · Apple M1 Pro

Global Score
55 vs 65
Hardware Fit
100 vs 94
Quality Score
36 vs 52

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M1 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.6.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.429.6
First chunk359 ms264 ms
TTFT359 ms264 ms
Load timeN/A3.8 s
Memory usage2.0 GB8.4 GB
Memory %6%53%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
24/30

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

hf.co/bartowski/ai9star…

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
6/20
Structured
0/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
1/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Poor Math: Strong Multilingual: Poor
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