qwen2.5-coder-3b-instruct-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen2 · 3B · 4bit

Good

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

microsoft/phi-4-mini-reasoning

LM-STUDIO MLX

phi3 · 3.8B · 4bit

Good

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score

73 vs 64

Hardware Fit

100 vs 100

Quality Score

61 vs 48

Hardware

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… microsoft/phi-4-mi…

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

qwen2.5-coder-3b-i… microsoft/phi-4-mi…

Tokens/sec52.390.3

First chunk285 ms198 ms

TTFT285 ms198 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage1.6 GB2.0 GB

Memory %5%3%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Speed

50/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

qwen2.5-coder-3b-instru…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

14/20

Instruction

13/20

Structured

14/15

Math

4/15

Multilingual

9/10

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

microsoft/phi-4-mini-re…

Reasoning

7/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

7/20

Structured

7/15

Math

13/15

Multilingual

7/10

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

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