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

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Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

google/gemma-3-27b

LM-STUDIO MLX

gemma3 · 27B · 4bit

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Mar 19, 2026 · Apple M4

Global Score

33 vs 71

Hardware Fit

74 vs 35

Quality Score

15 vs 86

Hardware

lmstudio-community… google/gemma-3-27b

MachineMacBook AirMac mini

CPUApple M4Apple M4

Cores1010

RAM32 GB24 GB

GPUApple M4Apple M4

OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3

Archarm64arm64

Power Modebalancedbalanced

Performance

lmstudio-community… google/gemma-3-27b

Tokens/sec11.55.9

First chunk670 ms19 ms

TTFT670 ms1.8 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage3.0 GB22.0 GB

Memory %9%92%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed

24/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

google/gemma-3-27b

Speed

12/50

TTFT

19/20

Memory

4/30

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

google/gemma-3-27b

Reasoning

16/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

16/20

Structured

15/15

Math

11/15

Multilingual

10/10

Reasoning: Strong Coding: Strong Instruction Following: Strong Structured Output: Strong Math: Adequate Multilingual: Strong

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