lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
phi4-mini:latest
OLLAMA GGUFphi3 · 3.8B · Q4_K_M
Mar 2, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
33 vs 71
Hardware Fit
74 vs 100
Quality Score
15 vs 58
Hardware
lmstudio-community… phi4-mini:latest
MachineMacBook AirMacBook Air
CPUApple M4Apple M4
Cores1010
RAM32 GB32 GB
GPUApple M4Apple M4
OSmacOS 26.3macOS 26.3
Archarm64arm64
Power Modebalancedbalanced
Performance
lmstudio-community… phi4-mini:latest
Tokens/sec11.536.2
First chunk670 msN/A
TTFT670 ms190 ms
Load timeN/A0.8 s
Memory usage3.0 GB8.3 GB
Memory %9%26%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lmstudio-community/Phi-…
Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
phi4-mini:latest
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
phi4-mini:latest
Reasoning
12/20
Coding
10/20
Instruction
10/20
Structured
11/15
Math
5/15
Multilingual
10/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Adequate Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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