lmstudio-community/Phi-4-reasoning-plus-MLX-4bit
LM-STUDIO GGUFMar 5, 2026 · Apple M4
nous-hermes2:latest
OLLAMA GGUFllama · 11B · Q4_0
Mar 1, 2026 · Apple M4
Global Score
33 vs 68
Hardware Fit
74 vs 87
Quality Score
15 vs 60
Hardware
lmstudio-community… nous-hermes2: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… nous-hermes2:latest
Tokens/sec11.515.9
First chunk670 msN/A
TTFT670 ms345 ms
Load timeN/A0.4 s
Memory usage3.0 GB6.6 GB
Memory %9%21%
HW Fit Score Breakdown
lmstudio-community/Phi-…
Speed
24/50
TTFT
20/20
Memory
30/30
nous-hermes2:latest
Speed
27/50
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
nous-hermes2:latest
Reasoning
11/20
Coding
9/20
Instruction
12/20
Structured
15/15
Math
4/15
Multilingual
9/10
Reasoning: Adequate Coding: Weak Instruction Following: Adequate Structured Output: Strong Math: Weak Multilingual: Strong
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