mlx-community/Nanbeige4.1-3B-8bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Marginal

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

53 vs 33

Hardware Fit

99 vs 74

Quality Score

33 vs 15

Hardware

mlx-community/Nanb… lmstudio-community…

MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB32 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

mlx-community/Nanb… lmstudio-community…

Tokens/sec25.411.5

First chunk266 ms670 ms

TTFT266 ms670 ms

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage0.0 GB3.0 GB

Memory %0%9%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Speed

49/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed

24/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

mlx-community/Nanbeige4…

Reasoning

10/20

Coding

7/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Reasoning

8/20

Coding

1/20

Instruction

1/20

Structured

1/15

Math

1/15

Multilingual

3/10

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

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