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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8:27b-bf16

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35 · 27.3B · BF16

Excellent

Aug 22, 2026 · AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor

Global Score
55 vs 85
Hardware Fit
100 vs 77
Quality Score
36 vs 88

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.8:27b-bf16
MachineMacBook AirDell Inc. PowerEdge XE8545
CPUApple M4AMD EPYC 7713 64-Core Processor
Cores10128
RAM32 GB1007 GB
GPUApple M4GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], Integrated Matrox G200eW3 Graphics Controller, GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB], GA100 [A100 SXM4 80GB]
OSmacOS 26.3Rocky Linux 8.10
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.8:27b-bf16
Tokens/sec43.427.2
First chunk359 ms237 ms
TTFT359 ms237 ms
Load timeN/A43.8 s
Memory usage2.0 GB68.8 GB
Memory %6%7%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

qwen3.8:27b-bf16

Speed
27/50
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

qwen3.8:27b-bf16

Reasoning
18/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
16/20
Structured
15/15
Math
11/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong
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