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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

falcon3-1b-instruct

LM-STUDIO MLX

llama · 1B · 3bit

Marginal

Mar 4, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
33 vs 54
Hardware Fit
74 vs 100
Quality Score
15 vs 34

Hardware

lmstudio-community… falcon3-1b-instruct
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… falcon3-1b-instruct
Tokens/sec11.5121.8
First chunk670 ms176 ms
TTFT670 ms176 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

falcon3-1b-instruct

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

falcon3-1b-instruct

Reasoning
7/20
Coding
1/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
7/15
Math
2/15
Multilingual
5/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Poor Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Weak Math: Poor Multilingual: Weak

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