lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
mlx-community/Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
33 vs 74
Hardware Fit
74 vs 100
Quality Score
15 vs 63
Hardware
lmstudio-community… mlx-community/Llam…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
lmstudio-community… mlx-community/Llam…
Tokens/sec11.550.6
First chunk670 ms257 ms
TTFT670 ms257 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB0.7 GB
Memory %9%2%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lmstudio-community/Phi-…
Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
mlx-community/Llama-3.2…
Speed
50/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
Quality
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
mlx-community/Llama-3.2…
Reasoning
9/20
Coding
14/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
3/15
Multilingual
8/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Adequate Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Poor Multilingual: Strong
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Or run without installing: npx metrillm@latest