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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

OLLAMA GGUF

nvfp4

Not Rec.

May 25, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
55 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 80
Quality Score
36 vs 87

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:26b-nvfp4
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB48 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.4.1
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma4:26b-nvfp4
Tokens/sec43.465.7
First chunk359 ms233 ms
TTFT359 ms30.0 s
Load timeN/A5.0 s
Memory usage2.0 GB15.2 GB
Memory %6%32%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

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

gemma4:26b-nvfp4

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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