lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
gemma4:12b-mlx
OLLAMA GGUFJul 4, 2026 · Apple M2 Pro
Global Score
33 vs 81
Hardware Fit
74 vs 82
Quality Score
15 vs 81
Hardware
lmstudio-community… gemma4:12b-mlx
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
Cores1010
RAM32 GB16 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M2 Pro
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
lmstudio-community… gemma4:12b-mlx
Tokens/sec11.525.3
First chunk670 ms761 ms
TTFT670 ms7.7 s
Load timeN/A3.6 s
Memory usage3.0 GB7.1 GB
Memory %9%44%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lmstudio-community/Phi-…
Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
gemma4:12b-mlx
Speed
50/50
TTFT
6/20
Memory
26/30
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
gemma4:12b-mlx
Reasoning
16/20
Coding
15/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
13/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Strong Multilingual: Strong
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