phi-3.5-mini-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 4bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

llama3.2:latest

OLLAMA GGUF

llama · 3.2B · Q4_K_M

Good

Feb 28, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

55 vs 73

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

36 vs 61

Hardware

phi-3.5-mini-instr… llama3.2:latest

MachineMacBook AirMac Mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

Cores1014

RAM32 GB64 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4 Pro

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 15.7.4

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedunknown

Performance

phi-3.5-mini-instr… llama3.2:latest

Tokens/sec43.498.9

First chunk359 msN/A

TTFT359 ms125 ms

Load timeN/A2.3 s

Memory usage2.0 GB22.1 GB

Memory %6%35%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

phi-3.5-mini-instruct

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

llama3.2:latest

Speed

40/50

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

llama3.2:latest

Reasoning

11/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

12/20

Structured

12/15

Math

3/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

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$ npm install -g metrillm@latest

$ metrillm

Requires Node 20+ and Ollama or LM Studio running

Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest