phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

gemma3:12b

OLLAMA GGUF

gemma3 · 12.2B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

55 vs 80

Hardware Fit

100 vs 83

Quality Score

36 vs 78

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma3:12b

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… gemma3:12b

Tokens/sec43.412.7

First chunk359 msN/A

TTFT359 ms560 ms

Load timeN/A2.8 s

Memory usage2.0 GB11.0 GB

Memory %6%34%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

gemma3:12b

Speed

23/50

TTFT

30/20

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

gemma3:12b

Reasoning

14/20

Coding

19/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

15/15

Math

7/15

Multilingual

10/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest