phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3:8b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen3 · 8.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 5, 2026 · Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Global Score

55 vs 84

Hardware Fit

100 vs 97

Quality Score

36 vs 79

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3:8b

MachineMacBook AirASUS

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ Ultra 9 285K

Cores1024

RAM32 GB47 GB

GPUApple M4NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, Intel(R) Graphics

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3:8b

Tokens/sec43.4208.0

First chunk359 ms82 ms

TTFT359 ms1.3 s

Load timeN/A1.5 s

Memory usage2.0 GB9.6 GB

Memory %6%20%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3:8b

Speed

50/50

TTFT

18/20

Memory

29/30

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

qwen3:8b

Reasoning

18/20

Coding

10/20

Instruction

14/20

Structured

15/15

Math

12/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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