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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35moe · 35B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Sep 20, 2026 · AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor

Global Score
55 vs 80
Hardware Fit
100 vs 60
Quality Score
36 vs 88

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
MachineMacBook AirSystem manufacturer
CPUApple M4AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-Core Processor
Cores1016
RAM32 GB31 GB
GPUApple M4Navi 44 [Radeon RX 9060 XT]
OSmacOS 26.3Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedperformance

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b
Tokens/sec43.415.0
First chunk359 ms49 ms
TTFT359 ms759 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB22.2 GB
Memory %6%71%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Speed
25/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
15/30

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

qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b

Reasoning
16/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
17/20
Structured
15/15
Math
12/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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