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

LM-STUDIO GGUF
Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-fable-fusion-f711-gain-mlx

LM-STUDIO MLX

qwen3_5 · 27B · MXFP4

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score
33 vs 88
Hardware Fit
74 vs 70
Quality Score
15 vs 96

Hardware

lmstudio-community… qwen3.8-27b-fable-…
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Pro
CPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
Cores1016
RAM32 GB128 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4 Max
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.5.2
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… qwen3.8-27b-fable-…
Tokens/sec11.530.4
First chunk670 ms27 ms
TTFT670 ms4.4 s
Load timeN/AN/A
Memory usage3.0 GB19.9 GB
Memory %9%16%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

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

qwen3.8-27b-fable-fusio…

Speed
34/50
TTFT
6/20
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

qwen3.8-27b-fable-fusio…

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

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$ metrillm

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