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

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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen2.5:0.5b

OLLAMA GGUF

qwen2 · 494.03M · Q4_K_M

Marginal

Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score
33 vs 57
Hardware Fit
74 vs 100
Quality Score
15 vs 39

Hardware

lmstudio-community… qwen2.5:0.5b
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… qwen2.5:0.5b
Tokens/sec11.5165.0
First chunk670 msN/A
TTFT670 ms81 ms
Load timeN/A0.5 s
Memory usage3.0 GB1.7 GB
Memory %9%5%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

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

qwen2.5:0.5b

Speed
40/50
TTFT
30/20
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

qwen2.5:0.5b

Reasoning
6/20
Coding
6/20
Instruction
7/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
4/10
Reasoning: Weak Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Weak Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Weak
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