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

LM-STUDIO GGUF

Not Rec.

Mar 5, 2026 · Apple M4

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus-reasoning-distilled

LM-STUDIO GGUF

qwen35 · 27B · Q4_K_M

Excellent

Aug 20, 2026 · Apple M4 Max

Global Score

33 vs 80

Hardware Fit

74 vs 63

Quality Score

15 vs 87

Hardware

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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

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Tokens/sec11.524.0

First chunk670 ms20 ms

TTFT670 ms4.5 s

Load timeN/AN/A

Memory usage3.0 GB15.7 GB

Memory %9%12%

HW Fit Score Breakdown

lmstudio-community/Phi-…

Speed

24/50

TTFT

20/20

Memory

30/30

qwen3.8-27b-claude-opus…

Speed

27/50

TTFT

6/20

Memory

30/30

Quality

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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-claude-opus…

Reasoning

19/20

Coding

18/20

Instruction

11/20

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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