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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

nemotron-3-nano

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Excellent

Mar 6, 2026 · Apple M4 Pro

Global Score
33 vs 93
Hardware Fit
74 vs 100
Quality Score
15 vs 90

Hardware

lmstudio-community… nemotron-3-nano
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

lmstudio-community… nemotron-3-nano
Tokens/sec11.593.3
First chunk670 ms257 ms
TTFT670 ms257 ms
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB0.1 GB
Memory %9%0%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30

nemotron-3-nano

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

nemotron-3-nano

Reasoning
19/20
Coding
18/20
Instruction
14/20
Structured
15/15
Math
14/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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