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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

lmstudio-community/meta-llama-3.1-8b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 8B · Q4_K_M

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
55 vs 78
Hardware Fit
100 vs 100
Quality Score
36 vs 69

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirMac mini
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
Cores1014
RAM32 GB64 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.446.0
First chunk359 ms245 ms
TTFT359 ms245 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage2.0 GB4.6 GB
Memory %6%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

lmstudio-community/meta…

Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
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

lmstudio-community/meta…

Reasoning
11/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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