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phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen35moe · 36.0B · Q4_K_M

Good

Jul 31, 2026 · Intel Core™ i9-14900K

Global Score
55 vs 79
Hardware Fit
100 vs 62
Quality Score
36 vs 86

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
MachineMacBook AirMicro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7D98
CPUApple M4Intel Core™ i9-14900K
Cores1032
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Intel(R) UHD Graphics 770, NVIDIA Quadro K4000
OSmacOS 26.3Microsoft Windows 11 Pro 10.0.26200
Archarm64x64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4…
Tokens/sec43.416.4
First chunk359 ms787 ms
TTFT359 ms787 ms
Load timeN/A19.3 s
Memory usage2.0 GB21.8 GB
Memory %6%17%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Speed
15/50
TTFT
17/20
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

qwen3.5:35b-a3b-q4_K_M

Reasoning
17/20
Coding
17/20
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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