phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

deepseek-coder-1.3b-instruct

LM-STUDIO GGUF

llama · 1.3B · Q8_0

Not Rec.

Mar 6, 2026 · Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Global Score

55 vs 30

Hardware Fit

100 vs 66

Quality Score

36 vs 14

Hardware

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MachineMacBook AirLENOVO 20BUS00700

CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i5-5300U

Cores104

RAM32 GB16 GB

GPUApple M4Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500

OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 10 Professionnel 10.0.19045

Archarm64x64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

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Tokens/sec43.47.1

First chunk359 ms3448 ms

TTFT359 ms3.4 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage2.0 GB1.3 GB

Memory %6%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

deepseek-coder-1.3b-ins…

Speed

24/50

TTFT

15/20

Memory

27/30

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-coder-1.3b-ins…

Reasoning

0/20

Coding

3/20

Instruction

3/20

Structured

6/15

Math

0/15

Multilingual

2/10

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

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