phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-r1:1.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 1.8B · Q4_K_M

Not Rec.

Apr 29, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Global Score

55 vs 37

Hardware Fit

100 vs 73

Quality Score

36 vs 22

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… deepseek-r1:1.5b

MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20L7CTO1WW

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-8350U

Cores108

RAM32 GB23 GB

GPUApple M4Kaby Lake-R GT2 [UHD Graphics 620]

OSmacOS 26.3Fedora Linux 43

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedlow-power

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… deepseek-r1:1.5b

Tokens/sec43.418.4

First chunk359 ms593 ms

TTFT359 ms30.0 s

Load timeN/A3.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB1.0 GB

Memory %6%4%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Speed

43/50

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

deepseek-r1:1.5b

Reasoning

4/20

Coding

0/20

Instruction

5/20

Structured

3/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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